The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament
研究发现1688年光荣革命后，需要出售土地产权的乡绅家庭比贵族家庭更容易获得议会批准，这主要归因于议会确定性提高，改变了家庭和中介的决策。
This paper shows that the Glorious Revolution of 1688 broadened access to Parliament for families needing rights to sell land in so-called estate bills. Bills were on average 14–27 percentage points more likely to be for gentry families and not aristocratic families in legislative sessions after the Revolution compared to sessions before. Regression and archival evidence suggest that parliamentary certainty was primarily responsible for improved access by altering families’ entry calculus and brokers’ recruitment of new business. More broadly, the paper provides insight into the ways in which political institutions affect access to and the provision of property rights.