Two-way fixed effects (TWFE) models are ubiquitous in causal panel analysis in political
science. However, recent methodological discussions challenge their validity in the …

We study the international origins of the neo-welfare state in Britain during the era of
globalization before World War I. We introduce a new mechanism linking trade to the …

Conventional theories of ethnic politics argue that political entrepreneurs form ethnic parties
where there is ethnic diversity. Yet empirical research finds that diversity is a weak predictor …

We investigate the intergenerational transmission of political-party affiliation within families
with at least two politicians. We use Swedish registry data that covers all nominated …

This paper considers the contribution of population growth and urbanization---key processes
of modernization---to political competition and the characteristics of political representatives …

We study the international origins of the neo-welfare state in Britain during the era of
globalization before World War I. We introduce a new mechanism linking trade to the …

There is a long and rich tradition of using history to shed light on modern politics, and the
comparative study of parliaments was moved drastically forward by looking to the past. 1 …

Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain,
and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the'modernization theory'beloved of …

We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-
based extensions of the franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district …

The passage from pre-industrial to industrial societies was not an easy one. Industrial
societies, ie, societies where the dominant form of production is mass industry, are usually …