Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance
研究合法性变化如何推动英格兰宪政君主制的兴起，指出低合法性的都铎君主通过提升议会地位来增强自身合法性，从而改变了立法过程。
This paper highlights the importance of endogenous changes in the foundations of legitimacy for political regimes. It focuses on the central role of legitimacy changes in the rise of constitutional monarchy in England. It first defines legitimacy and briefly elaborates a theoretical framework enabling a historical study of this unobservable variable. It proceeds to substantiate that the low-legitimacy, post-Reformation Tudor monarchs promoted Parliament to enhance their legitimacy, thereby changing the legislative process from the “crown and Parliament” to the “crown in Parliament” that still prevails in England. The break with Rome permanently altered England’s political development.