caa a22 4500 606167692 CHVBK 20210128100704.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-015-0282-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-015-0282-7 Young Andrew College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, 26506-6025, Morgantown, WV, USA aut From Caesar to Tacitus: changes in early Germanic governance circa 50 BC-50 AD [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew Young] Julius Caesar and Cornelius Tacitus provide characterizations of early Germanic (barbarian) society around, respectively, 50 BC and 50 AD. The earlier date corresponds to expansion of Rome to the Rhine and Danube. During the subsequent century Germanic governance institutions changed in a number of ways. In particular, (1) temporary military commanders elected from the nobility gave way to standing retinues under the leadership of professional commanders, (2) public assemblies met more frequently and regularly, (3) councils made up of nobility gained agenda control in the assemblies, and (4) these councils relinquished their control over the allocations of land. I account for these constitutional exchanges in light of Rome's encroachment. This encroachment brought new sources of wealth as well as constraints on the expansion of Germans into new lands. Incentives favored a reallocation of resources away from pastoralism and towards both sedentary farming and raids across the frontier. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Self-governance nationallicence Economics of clubs nationallicence Constitutional exchange nationallicence Early Germanic peoples nationallicence The Roman Empire nationallicence Political economy nationallicence Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 164/3-4(2015-09-01), 357-378 0048-5829 164:3-4<357 2015 164 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0282-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0282-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Young Andrew College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, 26506-6025, Morgantown, WV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 164/3-4(2015-09-01), 357-378 0048-5829 164:3-4<357 2015 164 11127