Law and Finance in Illinois, 1868-1874 (ICPSR 9680)

Principal Investigator(s): Monkkonen, Eric

Summary: The first file in this data collection provides information on the delegates to the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1870. Data include delegate's name, age, party affiliation, county and legislative district, and voting decision on several issues. The second file pertains to the local context of the vote for the Illinois Constitution of 1870, which involved a separate vote on the article forbidding lending by local government to railroads. Variables in the second data file include cou... (more info)

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Monkkonen, Eric. Law and Finance in Illinois, 1868-1874. ICPSR09680-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-02-24. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09680.v2

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09680.v2

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This survey was funded by:

• National Science Foundation (SES-87-10230)

Summary:   The first file in this data collection provides information on the delegates to the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1870. Data include delegate's name, age, party affiliation, county and legislative district, and voting decision on several issues. The second file pertains to the local context of the vote for the Illinois Constitution of 1870, which involved a separate vote on the article forbidding lending by local government to railroads. Variables in the second data file include county, town, city, and total debts, town, city, and total population, assessed value on improvement of city and town lots, land, and railroads, number of towns and cities in each county, and number of corporations in each county.

Subject Terms:   cities, constitutions, corporations, counties, delegates, demographic characteristics, demographic statistics, historical data, local government, nineteenth century, party membership, population, railroads, towns, voting behavior, voting districts

Geographic Coverage:   Illinois

Time Period:  

• 1868--1874

Date of Collection:  

• 1988--1990

Data Types:   administrative records data

Data Source:

(1) The Illinois Handbook of Information for the Year 1870 (Springfield, IL, 1870), and (2) Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois (Springfield, IL, 1870).

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Original ICPSR Release:  1992-05-12

Version History:

• 2010-02-24 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.
• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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