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doi:10.7910/DVN/PLKWUL |
Publication Date
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2024-01-05 |
Title
| Replication Data for: Trains, Trade, and Transformation: A Spatial Rogowski Theory of America's 19th Century Protectionism |
Author
| Scheve, KennethYale UniversityORCID0000-0002-6809-0060
Serlin, TheoStanford UniversityORCID0000-0002-1952-0845 |
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Scheve, Kenneth (Yale University) |
Description
| We study the effect of expanding trade on societal coalitions through its impact on development. We combine a majoritarian political model with a spatial model of trade to argue that trade-induced economic change---by bringing new workers to locations closer to world markets---can lead to losses rather than gains in political power for the factors of production advantaged by increased trade. We study how this phenomenon explains rising protectionism in the US from 1880 to 1900. Using county-level changes in transportation costs induced by railroad expansion, our estimates indicate that falling costs increased population and farm values but reduced the proportion of farmers. Reduced transportation costs caused a reduction in vote shares for the Democratic Party, which favored liberal trade policies, and an increase in an original newspaper-based measure of protectionist sentiment. Expanding trade alters not only political interests but also the geographic distribution of those interests. (2023-5-15) |
Subject
| Social Sciences |
Keyword
| Political economy
Spatial trade theory
Trade policy
Globalization
American political development |
Related Publication
| Scheve, Kenneth, and Theo Serlin. [date]. “Trains, Trade, and Transformation: A Spatial Rogowski Theory of America's 19th Century Protectionism.” American Journal of Political Science Forthcoming. http://ajps.org/ |
Notes
| This dataset underwent an independent verification process that replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of code. The verification process was carried out by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Producer
| Scheve, Kenneth (Yale University) https://scheve-research.org/
Serlin, Theo (Stanford University) https://theo-serlin.github.io/ |
Depositor
| Scheve, Kenneth |
Deposit Date
| 2023-05-15 |
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