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Parties and interests in the ‘marriage of iron and rye'

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  • Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl

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This article analyses Imperial Germany's legendary coalition of landed aristocracy and heavy industry around a policy of tariff protection. Using a simple model of voting behaviour, where party affiliation serves as a partial intervening variable between constituency interests and legislative votes on trade policy, I test hypotheses derived from three different interpretations of the ‘marriage of iron and rye’. Roll-call votes from four key divisions in the Reichstag are analysed in a number of forms, ranging from cross-tabulations to conditional logistic regression. Ronald Rogowski's ‘factor endowment’ model offers an important dynamic perspective that is lacking in the others, but his model must be reconciled with anomalies that arise in the short run. Rather than attempting to disentangle political party ideology from constituents' interests, more insight may be gained from understanding why the effects of the two causal factors were not fixed, and how they varied over time.

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  • Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl, 1998. "Parties and interests in the ‘marriage of iron and rye'," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 861, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    2. Toke Aidt & Raphaël Franck, 2013. "How to get the snowball rolling and extend the franchise: voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 155(3), pages 229-250, June.
    3. Scharpf, Fritz W., 2018. "International monetary regimes and the German model," MPIfG Discussion Paper 18/1, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
    4. Petrov, A.N. (Петров, А.Н.) & Kurakova, N.G. (Куракова, Н.Г.) & Uchkin, I.A. (Учкин, И.А.), 2019. "Technological mercantilism and technological colonization: new challenges for Russia [Технологический Меркантелизм И Технологическая Колонизация: Новые Вызовы Для России]," Economy of science, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, vol. 5, pages 84-100, June.
    5. VAN DIJCK, Maarten & TRUYTS, Tom, 2014. "The agricultural invasion and the political economy of agricultural trade policy in Belgium, 1875-1900," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2014002, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).

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    • L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce

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