Aggregating roll call voting records from the Prussian parliament during 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, which over-represented the economic elite.
Use Cases
- Analyze the link between vote inequality in constituencies and liberal voting patterns on roll call votes.
- Examine how the relationship between vote inequality and liberal voting varies across regions with different industrial characteristics.
- Study the political orientation of parliament members as gauged from the universe of roll call votes.
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.
- Focuses on a specific and impactful electoral system, the Prussian three-class franchise.
Limitations
- The dataset's specific structure, including row count, column features, and file formats, is unknown.
- The data is historical and may not be directly comparable to modern political systems without careful contextualization.
- Geographic coverage is limited to the historical state of Prussia.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- 1867–1903
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Prussia