Bismarck's Welfare State and Socialist Party Electoral Impact in 19th-Century Germany

This dataset supports a study on the political consequences of Bismarck's welfare state reforms targeted at blue-collar workers in 19th-century Germany. The analysis uses a difference-in-differences design to examine the electoral benefits for the socialist party.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between welfare state introduction and socialist party vote share using a difference-in-differences framework.
• Examine the mechanism of socialist party issue ownership by adopting a stronger reformist stance post-reform.
• Investigate political and economic channels to test if results are driven by factors other than the welfare reform.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a formal academic study published by an author from ICPSR Harvested Dataverse.
• The analysis employs a difference-in-differences design to establish causal inference.

Limitations

• The specific dataset structure, including column names, row count, and file formats, is unknown.
• The data's temporal coverage is specified only as 19th-century Germany without precise start and end years.

Provenance

Source

ICPSR Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Archival data used for academic research, methodology involves a difference-in-differences design.

Time Range

19th-century Germany

Freshness

The record was last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

Germany