Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence in Historical Analysis

This dataset supports the replication of Logan (2023) published in the Journal of Economic History. It contains data and code for analyzing the relationship between Black politicians, taxation, and violence. The author is Trevon Logan, and the data was last updated in February 2026.

Use Cases

• Replicate the econometric analysis from the published journal article using the provided code and data.
• Analyze historical relationships between political representation and tax policies.
• Investigate patterns of violence in the context of Black political office-holding.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Economic History.
• Includes replication code, facilitating verification and extension of the original research.
• Last updated in February 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Specific details on data structure, such as row count, column names, and file formats, are unavailable.
• The scope of temporal and geographic coverage is not specified in the provided input.
• The absence of sample data and column descriptions limits immediate understanding of the dataset's variables.

Provenance

Source

Trevon Logan via ICPSR Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Created for academic research and replication; specific collection methodology is not detailed.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-23.