The Retrenchment Hypothesis and the Extension of the Franchise in England and Wales
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- TokeS. Aidt & Martin Daunton & Jayasri Dutta, 2010. "The Retrenchment Hypothesis and the Extension of the Franchise in England and Wales," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 120(547), pages 990-1020, September.
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Keywords
Voting franchise; retrenchment; local public goods; sanitation.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2008-06-21 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-HIS-2008-06-21 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-PBE-2008-06-21 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2008-06-21 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-URE-2008-06-21 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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