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How to get the snowball rolling and extend the franchise: voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832

Aidt, Toke; Franck, Raphaël - In: Public Choice 155 (2013) 3, pp. 229-250

This paper suggests a new approach to analyzing the causes of franchise extension. Based on a new dataset, it provides a detailed econometric study of the Great Reform Act of 1832 in the United Kingdom. The analysis yields four main results. First, modernization theory receives limited support....

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How to get the snowball rolling and extend the franchise: voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832

Aidt, Toke; Franck, Raphaël - In: Public choice 155 (2013) 3/4, pp. 229-250

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How democracy was achieved

Tridimas, George - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 4, pp. 651-658

democratization of the West from the medieval times to the early twentieth century, first the shift of policy making authority from … population. This review essay sets out the themes of the book, and relates the book to the democratization of classical Athens … and democratization from the last quarter of the 20th century. …

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War and the political zeitgeist: Evidence from the history of female suffrage

Hicks, Daniel L. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 31 (2013) C, pp. 60-81

limited. This paper examines the hypothesis that international wars accelerated democratization by fostering political …

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The political economy of suffrage reform : the Great Reform Act of 1832

Cox, Gary W.; Fresh, Adriane; Saiegh, Sebastián M. - In: Journal of historical political economy : JHPE 3 (2023) 1, pp. 65-93

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Franchise Extension and Fiscal Structure in the United Kingdom 1820-1913: A New Test of the Redistribution Hypothesis

Aidt, Toke; Winer, Stanley L.; Zhang, Peng - 2020

We study the effect of franchise extension on the fiscal structure of central and local governments in the United Kingdom between 1820 and 1913 to revisit the Redistribution Hypothesis - the prediction that franchise extension causes an increase in state-sponsored redistribution. We adopt a...

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Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial India

Cassan, Guilhem; Iyer, Lakshmi; Mirza, Rinchan Ali - 2020

We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that the partial franchise extension of 1935 resulted in...

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Democratizing from within: British elites and the expansion of the franchise

Basu, Chitralekha; Boix, Carles; Giurumescu, Sonia; … - 2022

We develop a theory of democratization that integrates both electoral calculations and economic incentives to explain … the democratization of Britain in this period. …

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Revolutions of the mind, (threats of) actual revolutions, and institutional change

Grijalva, Diego F. - In: Public choice 200 (2024) 3/4, pp. 531-560

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Democratization under the threat of revolution : evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832

Aidt, Toke; Franck, Raphaël - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 83 (2015) 2, pp. 505-547

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