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The Transition From Absolute Monarchy to Parliamentary Monarchies
Gordon Tullick tells some very interesting stories about the transition from absolute monarchy to parliamentary monarchy in 19th century Europe. He says that precisely because these were predatory monarchies where there was no real competition to get to the throne, eventually just by luck you wind up getting some people who are not very power hungry and then were willing to voluntarily sign away their power. If I were looking I would probably go and take a look at some of these transitions from at least officialabsolute monarchy to parliamentary governments and see what was going on.
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