... A. Jensen, et al. 2023 A. Jensen, et al. Licensed re-use rights only Federalism political economy elections political parties slavery The years from 1840 to 1860 witnessed a number of attempts to preserve the United States and avoid armed conflict via “political solutions...

... Licensed re-use rights only Slavery protest repression coercion Enslaved laborers were the greatest source of, and threat to, Southern elites’ wealth and power. While mass uprisings were rare, enslaved Americans frequently resisted in other ways. They broke tools, feigned illness, set...

... H. Bleakley and P. W. Rhode 2023 H. Bleakley and P. W. Rhode Licensed re-use rights only Slavery institution choice migration During their grand tour of the United States in 1831–1832, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont struggled to make sense of the regional differences...

...David A. Bateman; Eric Schickler The legacies of slavery have shaped nearly all aspects of American politics. Acharya, Blackwell, and Sen’s Deep Roots: How Slavery Shapes Southern Politics deploys sophisticated methods of causal inference to empirically identify one of these legacies...

...Ali T. Ahmed; Marcus Johnson; Mateo Vásquez-Cortés What is the effect of slavery on long-run party system development in the Americas? Recent research has examined these issues in the United States by focusing on contemporary white attitudes. However, relatively little research has considered...

...Seyler François This paper investigates the long-term influence of slavery and its abolition on development, social capital, and political attitudes in Brazil. I show that slavery and support for coercive institutions — measured by legislators’ voting decisions on emancipation related bills...

...Soumyajit Mazumder How and to what degree did slavery shape the reach of the American state? Building on existing literatures, I develop and test the hypothesis that slavery shaped the development of the American welfare state by creating highly labor coercive societies. To test the argument, I...