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Urbanization and the change in political elites
Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024
parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous …This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in … changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 French parliamentary elections. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452376
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Urbanization and the Change in Political Elites
Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024
parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous …This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in … changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 French parliamentary elections. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469312
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Urbanization and the change in political elites
Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024
parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous …This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in … changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 French parliamentary elections. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448167
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Representation of the people: Franchise extension and the "Sinn Féin election" in Ireland, 1918
De Bromhead, Alan; Fernihough, Alan; Hargaden, Enda - 2018
Electoral reforms in 1918 nearly tripled the number of people eligible to vote in Ireland. Following the reforms - the largest franchise extensions in UK history - the previously obscure Sinn Féin party secured 73 of Ireland's 105 seats, an outcome that presaged a guerrilla war and ultimately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862994
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Representation of the people : franchise extension and the "Sinn Féin election" in Ireland, 1918
De Bromhead, Alan; Fernihough, Alan; Hargaden, Enda - 2018
Electoral reforms in 1918 nearly tripled the number of people eligible to vote in Ireland. Following the reforms - the largest franchise extensions in UK history - the previously obscure Sinn Féin party secured 73 of Ireland's 105 seats, an outcome that presaged a guerrilla war and ultimately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862577
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Urbanization and the change in political elites
Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024
parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous …This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in … changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 French parliamentary elections. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445553
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Participative political institutions and city development 800-1800
Wahl, Fabian - Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, … - 2015
This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011246033
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Origins of Political Change Ñ The Case of Late Medieval Guild Revolts
Wahl, Fabian - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2014
This study investigates the origins of the guild revolts in late medieval central Europe. At first, using newly compiled city level data, their temporal evolution and spatial distribution is discussed. Afterwards, the paper provides a historical discussion and empirical analysis of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147137
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Voting Behaviour and Public Employment in Nazi Germany
Maurer, Stephan E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
This paper analyses whether the German National Socialists used economic policies to reward their voters after their rise to power in 1933. Using data on public employment in the armed forces, public administrations and related professions from the German occupational censuses in 1925, 1933 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165723
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Voting behaviour and public employment in Nazi Germany
Maurer, Stephan E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
This paper analyses whether the German National Socialists used economic policies to reward their voters after their rise to power in 1933. Using data on public employment in the armed forces, public administrations and related professions from the German occupational censuses in 1925, 1933 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183327