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Economic Development and Democracy. Does Industrialization Lead to Universal Suffrage?

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Roger Congleton () (Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA)

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Economic development is widely believed to stimulate the development of democratic institutions. This paper supports that argument, but suggests that the connection between industrialization and democracy is quite indirect.

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Article provided by Institute of SocioEconomics in its journal Homo Oeconomicus.

Volume (Year): 21 (2004)
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Pages: 283-314
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  1. Aidt, T. & Jensen, P.S., 2007. "The Taxman Tools Up: An Event History Study of the Introduction of the Personal Income Tax in Western Europe, 1815-1941," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0766, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. [Downloadable!]
  2. Aidt, T.S. & Daunton, M. & Dutta, J., 2008. "The Retrenchment Hypothesis and the Extension of the Franchise in England and Wales," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0818, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. [Downloadable!]
  3. Aidt, T.S. & Jense , P.S., 2007. "Tax Structure, Size of Government, and the Extension of the Voting Franchise in Western Europe, 1860-1938," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0715, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Congleton, R.D., 2007. "Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Ideology, and Constitutional Reform," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0764, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. [Downloadable!]
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