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SUMMARY:EKH Seminar: Jaakko Meriläinen
DESCRIPTION:Contact: erik.bengtsson@ekh.lu.se\n\nOn 11 november the Economi
 c History department seminar hosts Jaakko Meriläinen\, Associate Professo
 r of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. Meriläinen will pres
 ent a paper co-authored with Torun Dewan (LSE)\, Christopher Kam (Universi
 ty of British Columbia)\, and Janne Tukiainen (University of Turku)\, "Cla
 ss\, Social Mobility\, and Voting in Democratizing and Industrializing Eng
 land". For abstract and link to a WP version of the paper\, see below.&nbs
 p\;Jaakko Meriläinen -- personal website&nbsp\;Torun Dewan\, Christopher 
 Kam\, Jaakko Meriläinen\, and Janne Tukiainen"Class\, Social Mobility\, a
 nd Voting in Democratizing and Industrializing England"Aboa Centre for Eco
 nomics Discussion paper No. 179March 2026ABSTRACT"To what extent did class
  shape political behavior during early democratization and industrializati
 on\, and did class voting reflect economic interests or durable political 
 identities? We use newly collected individual-level panel data from open-b
 allot elections in the nineteenth-century England—around 130\,000 record
 ed vote choices linked to voters’ occupations across elections—to prov
 ide evidence on the class-basis of voting. Voting was strongly structured 
 by occupation: skilled workers and the petite bourgeoisie disproportionate
 ly supported Liberals and their free-trade agenda\, while the gentry\, far
 m workers\, and unskilled workers leaned Conservative. Exploiting within-v
 oter mobility\, we show that these alignments reflected durable political 
 identities rather than contemporaneous economic interests: Although social
 ly mobile voters resemble their destination class in cross-sectional compa
 risons\, within-voter estimates show that individuals did not systematical
 ly change their vote choice when their class changed. Class-basedpolitical
  alignments were thus behaviorally durable at the individual level\, even 
 though the Industrial Revolution profoundly transformed society."The paper
  is available from this link.\n\nMore information about the event: https:/
 /www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/ekh-seminar-jaakko-merilainen
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LOCATION:Alfa1:1104\, Scheelevägen 15B\, 223 63 Lund
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