The Political Consequences of Franchise Extension: Evidence from the Second Reform Act^* Available to Purchase

We thank Facundo Albornoz, Jim Alt, Ernesto Dal Bo, Gary Jacobson, Jouni Kuha, Valentino Larcinese, Thomas Pluemper, Stephanie Rickard, Ken Scheve, Ken Shepsle, and seminar participants at APSA, Berkeley, ECPR, Essex, and Yale for helpful comments. We thank Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey and James Robinson for sharing their data. This project started while Samuel Berlinski was at the Department of Economics of University College London and Torun Dewan was a visitor at STICERD. We gratefully acknowledge the support from the European Research Council research grant (ERC-2009-StG-240910-ROMETA) and further financial assistance from STICERD. We thank May Chu and Brenda van Copenolle for excellent research assistance.