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Feeling the Heat of the League? When Ideas Matter (Not)
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Feeling The Heat of the League? How Local Newspapers Affected
MPs’ Voting on Repeal
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Government Department
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
c.m.## email not listed ##
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/schonhar/
This paper seeks to “measure” the free trade ideas that MPs were exposed to in their constituencies from 1841 to 1846, and then link this to their voting records in Parliament. I use local newspaper coverage of trade policy in 1841 and 1846 to compare the prevalence of free trade ideas in the districts of Peelites and Non-Peelite Conservatives in order to examine the change from 1841 to 1846. The results provide empirical evidence of the increased intensity in lobbying by the Anti-Corn Law League from 1841 to 1846, thereby increasing the demand for Repeal. Yet, it is also found that Peelites did not experience any dramatic changes in the ideas to which they were exposed in their constituencies, thus strengthening the argument that the abrupt reversal of the Peelites was not simply the product of demand-side pressures. Prepared for presentation at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 2-5 September. (It should be noted that this paper is also the penultimate chapter in my forthcoming book, Interests, Ideas and Institutions: Repeal of the Corn Laws Re-told, and so it occasionally refers to evidence presented in earlier chapters. Interested readers may obtain a detailed overview of the book from my website,
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/schonhar/
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Research for this paper was supported by the Suntory and Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) and the LSE Staff Research Fund. I am very grateful to my research assistant, Gordon Bannerman, for his assistance in surveying the local newspapers and in helping to code them. I am grateful to Andrew Bailey for assistance in analysing and interpreting the data and reading drafts of this paper.
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Feeling The Heat of the League? How Local Newspapers Affected
MPs’ Voting on Repeal
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Government Department
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
c.m.## email not listed ##
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/schonhar/
This paper seeks to “measure” the free trade ideas that MPs were exposed to in their
constituencies from 1841 to 1846, and then link this to their voting records in
Parliament. I use local newspaper coverage of trade policy in 1841 and 1846 to
compare the prevalence of free trade ideas in the districts of Peelites and Non-Peelite
Conservatives in order to examine the change from 1841 to 1846. The results provide
empirical evidence of the increased intensity in lobbying by the Anti-Corn Law
League from 1841 to 1846, thereby increasing the demand for Repeal. Yet, it is also
found that Peelites did not experience any dramatic changes in the ideas to which they
were exposed in their constituencies, thus strengthening the argument that the abrupt
reversal of the Peelites was not simply the product of demand-side pressures.
Prepared for presentation at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Chicago, 2-5 September.
(It should be noted that this paper is also the penultimate chapter in my forthcoming
book, Interests, Ideas and Institutions: Repeal of the Corn Laws Re-told, and so it
occasionally refers to evidence presented in earlier chapters. Interested readers may
obtain a detailed overview of the book from my website,
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/schonhar/
.
)
Research for this paper was supported by the Suntory and Toyota International Centre
for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) and the LSE Staff Research Fund.
I am very grateful to my research assistant, Gordon Bannerman, for his assistance in
surveying the local newspapers and in helping to code them. I am grateful to Andrew
Bailey for assistance in analysing and interpreting the data and reading drafts of this
paper.
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