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Mobilization and Partisan Division: Open Voting in Fredericia, Denmark

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Jørgen Elklit*
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus, Denmark

Extract

In recent articles Bourke and DeBats (1978, 1980) have made a number of interesting points, which are of immediate concern to the study of electoral mobilization and participation over time. They have pointed to the existence of a number of poll lists recording individual votes after 1820 in what they term viva voce states (1980:232ff). These lists certainly must attract the attention of anybody concerned with the empirical study of political development in the United States and elsewhere in the nineteenth century. Some of these lists have been known for quite a while, and some of them have also been used in various studies mentioned by Bourke and DeBats. Nevertheless, much tedious work remains to be done before all of these poll lists can be utilized and before they can be made available to the scientific community.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Social Science History Association 1983 

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Footnotes

This article is a slightly revised version of a paper presentedat the 1981 Social Science History Association meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. I wish to thank Ole Tonsgaardfor valuable comments on the original paper.

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