British Parliamentary Divisions on Repeal of the Corn Laws, Including Party Affiliation of Members of Parliament and Constituency Characteristics, 1832-1846 (ICPSR 6424)
Version Date: Feb 12, 1996 View help for published
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Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06424.v1
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These data were gathered to explain the timing of the repeal of the Corn Laws by developing and testing a model that links the economic composition of British county and borough constituencies to the voting behavior of Members of Parliament (M.P.s) on trade policy. The model seeks to demonstrate that electoral reform and export growth and diversification during the 1830s and the early 1840s, both independently and through their influence on the party affiliation of M.P.s, raised the political cost to M.P.s of maintaining a protectionist policy, thereby contributing to the policy shift from protectionism to free trade. The data include constituency characteristics derived from death duty registers and income tax returns.
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The first record in the data comprises a list of variable names. Consequently, the data have one record more than the number of cases.
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Systematic random sampling.
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All borough and county constituencies in Britain.
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(1) British death duty registers for 1830 and 1850, (2) Income tax returns for 1814 and 1856, (3) Philbin, J.H. PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION, 1832, ENGLAND AND WALES. New Haven, CT: 1965, (4) Great Britain. PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES AND PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Hansard, various years.
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1996-02-12
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- Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl. British Parliamentary Divisions on Repeal of the Corn Laws, Including Party Affiliation of Members of Parliament and Constituency Characteristics, 1832-1846. ICPSR06424-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06424.v1
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