Democracy comes to Europe: Franchise extension and fiscal outcomes 1830-1938

By Toke S. Aidt, J. Dutta, Elena Loukoianova. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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The taxman tools up: An event history study of the introduction of the personal income tax (2009, background): “Aidt et al. (2006) report that the franchise extension in Western Europe did not lead to a large and immediate expansion of total government spending, but shifted the portfolio of spending.”
Response to David J. Samuels and Ben W. Ansell’s review of From Open Secrets to Secret Voting: Democratic Electoral Reforms and Voter Autonomy (2014, background): “However, other attempts to account for the model’s weak empirical performance dispense 3See, for example, Aidt, Daunton, and Dutta (2010); Aidt, Dutta, and Loukoianova (2006); Aidt and Jensen (2011); Banerjee and Duflo (2003); Benabou (1996); Cheibub (1998); Cutright (1965); Easterly and Rebelo…”
Tax structure, size of government, and the extension of the voting franchise in Western Europe, 1860–1938 (2009, background): “Here, we consider the following regressions G Y it = (1)i + 1 t + (1)t+ 11x suffrage it + x control it 1 2 + 1 it; (1) T Y it = (2)i + 2 t + (2)t+ 21x suffrage it + x control it 2 2 + 2 it; (2)”
Globalisation and the Composition of Government Spending: An analysis for OECD countries (2006, background): “…information on consolidated general government spending and is based on accrual accounting methods.7 In addition to the comprehensive nature of this data the use of general government avoids the distortion of comparing countries with different degrees of fiscal decentralization (Aidt et al. 2006).”
Female voting power: the contribution of women’s suffrage to the growth of social spending in Western Europe (1869–1960) (2008, background): “A table with the underlying data was published in Aidt et al. (2006) which also contains a deeper discussion of some of the limitations of the data.”
Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians (2014, unknown): “The Law 81(1) of March 27, 1993 modified this provision by stipulating that in municipalities with less than 15,000 residents neither sex could represent more than 3/4 of the total candidates.”