Voting suffrage and the political budget cycle: Evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902–1937

The Right to Vote : The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

Keyssar's largely intellectual history of suffrage throughout the nation's history and Kornbluh's largely quantitative analysis of the transition from nearly universal male political participation in the late 1800s to the much less active polity of the twentieth century underscore a simple, but often neglected lesson: Because words and behavior are sometimes at variance, scholars should study b...

London and Glasgow: a spatial analysis of mortality experience in contrasting metropolitan centres.

"Mortality data for ischaemic heart disease and lung-bronchus cancer in the 29 metropolitan boroughs of London and the 37 electoral wards of Glasgow are standardised for age and sex relative to an all-U.K. norm. The standardised mortality ratios (S.M.R.) obtained, when expressed in map form, reveal marked spatial inequalities. A relationship with social class and concomitant housing and livin...

The Role of Virtual News Networks on Voting Behavior (Case study: Political Science Students Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch in 26 February 2016 Election)

Thepresent study aims to investigate the impact of the virtual news networks onpolitical participation of Iranians in parliamentary election on 26 February2016. The method of...

Isolation and Characterisation of Anti-diabetic Pharmacological Activities of Phytoestrogens

What Women Want: Suffrage, Gender Gaps in Voter Preferences and Government Expenditures

This paper combines unique individual-level information on ballot votes with state-level data on expenditures to provide new evidence on how women suffrage has affected government spending. Using data from the last country in Europe to adopt suffrage, Switzerland, we demonstrate two main results. First, women suffrage has changed the scope of government much more than its size. Women are more l...