Nineteenth-Century British Parliament Railway Logrolling Records

Encompassing replication materials for a study on private benefits and logrolling in the 19th-century British Parliament related to railways. It includes data and code to reproduce the paper's figures and tables. The author is Rui Esteves, and the dataset was last updated in February 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze logrolling patterns in parliamentary voting records from the 19th century
• Replicate econometric models examining the relationship between railways and political economy variables
• Study the coding of variables related to private benefits and public vices as described in the paper's appendix

Strengths

• Dataset is part of a formal replication package for a peer-reviewed academic paper
• Includes a detailed online appendix with variable descriptions and coding information
• Maintained and updated through the ICPSR Harvested Dataverse platform as of February 2026

Limitations

• Specific data structure, row count, column names, and file formats are not provided in the input
• The dataset's primary purpose is replication, which may limit its utility for novel exploratory analysis without the original paper's context
• Geographic and temporal scope is narrowly focused on 19th-century Britain

Provenance

Source

ICPSR Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Archival replication package for an academic paper.

Time Range

Nineteenth century.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

British Parliament.