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37 Lizzeri and Persico (2004) essentially present a different argument to Acemoglu and Robinson (2000, 2006a), suggesting that the franchise was expanded because the dominant commercial elite formed a coalition with labor to demand a system of public goods, particularly in the urban centers. This led to a more productive labor force and increased the real return of both capital and labor. 2 Economic and Political Change in Britain Extend Franchise/ Empire 17 SOCIAL DIMENSION Radicals Disraeli Partisan cleavage line, 1850 Conservatives Partisan cleavage line, 1867 C ECONOMIC DIMENSION W Land Capital Liberal catenary Gladstone G’ Free Traders Liberals Free Trade Fig.
The figure is meant to suggest that Gladstone adopted a position that was pro-capital, but also in favor of free trade. In contrast, Disraeli understood that the hold on the Tories by the landed interest had to be broken, in order to oppose the Whigs, or Liberals. ” The “partisan cleavage line” is a convenient way of showing the separation between the Whigs and the Conservatives, and how this changed from its position in 1850 to a new position in 1867, as illustrated in the figure. (Weintraub 1993:443).
The political coalition structure was “intersectional” of eastern pro-capital Whigs against the agrarian Democrat south and west. Lincoln’s election was the result of the collapse of the agrarian coalition, triggered by the Dred Scott opinion of the Supreme Court in 1857. 5 is intended to suggest that the position of Breckenridge was the result of a coalition of pro-slavery agrarian activists. In the period up to the 1860 election, Lincoln argued that the Dred Scott decision was a maneuver by the pro-slavery coalition to expand slavery to the Pacific.