A recent wave of research in political science examines the past using statistical methods for
causal inference and formal theory—a field widely known as historical political economy …

The advent of large language models (LLMs) provides an opportunity to conduct qualitative
interviews at a large scale, with thousands of respondents, creating a bridge between …

The political integration of immigrants into their host country is in part a test of how well a
democratic society copes with diversity. This thesis focuses on Chinese immigrants and their …

How were the most underprivileged women mobilized after suffrage? Newly enfranchised
women faced a multitude of barriers to voting, and this was especially the case for working …

Abstrak The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu), mandated by the law as the leading
actor in overseeing the electoral process, holds the potential to enhance the quality of …

This analysis uses plausibly exogenous changes in electoral boundaries to investigate how
voting participation is affected by local concentrations of voters who favor majority or minority …

This paper studies the effects of various types of land reform on the voting of the rural poor in
a developing, largely agrarian economy such as 1930s Spain. Using municipal-level …

Do violence during a civil war and its aftermath leave a mark on political behaviour? In this
article I study how violence perpetrated by the left and repression by the right during and …

A history of local inclusive institutions is correlated with higher levels of democracy today.
However, it is unclear whether this reflects the effect of historical institutions on democracy or …

Despite the growing interest in the economic backgrounds of mps in Western Europe, the
evolution of working-class numerical representation before 1945 has not been …