Prussian Parliamentary Roll Call Votes During Industrialization

Roll call voting records from the Prussian parliament, covering the period of rapid industrialization from 1867 to 1903. It was created by Sascha O. Becker to analyze the political effects of the three-class franchise system. The data supports research on the link between vote inequality, economic interests, and liberal policy support.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between vote inequality in constituencies and liberal voting patterns in roll call votes.
• Model the political orientation of parliament members using the universe of roll call votes cast between 1867 and 1903.
• Investigate how the strength of the link between vote inequality and liberal voting varies in regions with large-scale industry.
• Study the policy effects of the Prussian three-class franchise system using historical parliamentary data.

Strengths

• Covers a significant historical period of 36 years (1867–1903) during Prussia's industrialization.
• Based on the universe of roll call votes cast in the Prussian parliament, providing a complete legislative record.
• Designed to test specific hypotheses about political economy, vote inequality, and policy outcomes.

Limitations

• The specific data structure, column names, and row count are unknown from the provided input.
• Geographic coverage is limited to historical Prussia, which may limit generalizability.
• As historical archival data, it may require significant contextual knowledge and preprocessing for analysis.

Provenance

Source

ICPSR Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Archival compilation of parliamentary roll call voting records.

Time Range

1867–1903

Freshness

The metadata was last updated on 2026-02-23, though the underlying historical data is static.

Geography

Historical Prussia