Aidt, T.S.; Jensen, P.S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2011
This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as … suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of … this new measure of the threat of revolution and measures of su¤rage reform in two samples of European countries covering …