Nineteenth Century British Parliament Logrolling Replication Package

This replication package supports the paper 'Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament'. It contains the data and code required to reproduce the paper's figures and tables, as well as an online appendix with additional results and variable descriptions. The specific dataset dimensions, such as row and column counts, are not provided in the input.

Use Cases

• Replicate the analysis of logrolling patterns using the provided parliamentary voting and railway data.
• Reproduce the paper's figures and tables by executing the included replication code.
• Examine the relationship between private benefits and public vices as defined by the paper's variables and coding.

Strengths

• The package is directly linked to a specific academic paper, ensuring clear research context.
• Includes an online appendix with additional results and detailed variable descriptions.
• The repository was last updated in February 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• The core dataset's structure, including the number of rows and columns, is unknown.
• The data's completeness and potential biases are not described in the provided input.
• The specific file formats and total size of the data are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Rui Esteves via ICPSR Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Created as a replication package for an academic paper on political economy.

Time Range

Nineteenth century.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

British Parliament.