Historical Political Economy

What economic benefits do individuals derive from supporting autocratic regimes? We address this question by examining members of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP) between 1920 and 1945. We expect that early joiners were more likely to gain personally …

Despite its early experiment with male suffrage, France was one of the last countries in Europe to extend the vote to women. Existing accounts of this French exceptionalism argue that members of the Radical party, which controlled the upper house, …