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Droughts, Conflict, and the Importance of Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Europe (ICPSR 206441)

Released/updated on: 2024-06-22
Time period: 0900-01-01--1799-12-31
This research shows that droughts are robustly associated with city-level unrest in Europe over the years 900 to 1800 CE. This relationship is non-linear, with disproportionately greater increases in the probability of a conflict among droughts in the upper tail of the severity distribution. Elected city governments are relatively immune from drought-induced conflict, while those based on representation by burghers or guilds are not. These results suggest that local governments are key for maintaining social stability during economic shocks, and are most successful when they have a greater degree of democratic legitimacy.
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Replication data for: The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise (ICPSR 120745)

Released/updated on: 2020-08-24
Time period: 1867-01-01--1903-01-01
How did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policies? Contrary to the predominant and simplistic view that the system allowed the landed elites to capture most political rents, we find that members of parliament from constituencies with a higher vote inequality support more liberal policies, gauging their political orientation from the universe of roll call votes cast in parliament during Prussia’s rapid industrialization (1867–1903). Consistent with the characteristics of German liberalism that aligned with economic interests of business, the link between vote inequality and liberal voting is stronger in regions with large-scale industry.
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Replication Materials: Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament. (ICPSR 147641)

Released/updated on: 2021-08-24
Time period: 1845-01-01--1848-01-01
This is the replication package for "Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament". Please refer to the README file for details on the data and code necessary to replicate the figures and tables contained in the paper.
 The repository also contains a copy of the online appendix with additional results and further description of the variables and coding used in the paper.