How to Expect the Portuguese Inquisition

dc.contributor.advisorNye, John V.C.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Robert Warren
dc.creatorAnderson, Robert Warren
dc.date2011-04-29
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-06T21:07:20Z
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dc.date.available2011-05-06T21:07:20Z
dc.date.issued2011-05-06
dc.description.abstractThe Portuguese Inquisition lasted for centuries, sentenced tens of thousands of people and created a global Diaspora. However, an analytical approach to understanding fluctuations in inquisitorial severity is lacking. I use a Public Choice framework of the inquisition by treating it as a power and wealth seeking bureaucracy. I find that economic conditions affected overall sentencing; as well as political. Anti-inquisitorial lobbying is found to be effective. Inquisitors acted to protect their co-religionists, engaged in systematic rent seeking behavior and shifted their focus when it became politically expedient. Far from being a pious Catholic institution intent on keeping religion pure, the inquisition acted as a bureaucracy like any other modern one complete with rent seeking, lobbying and politics.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/6249
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectEconomic history
dc.subjectPortugal
dc.titleHow to Expect the Portuguese Inquisition
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineEconomics
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.namePhD in Economics

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