Law and Finance in Illinois, 1868-1874 / Eric Monkkonen.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9680.

ICPSR ; 9680

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illinois. Constitutional Convention (1869-1870).

Illinois.

Fiscal policy.

Local finance.

Illinois--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Politics and government.

Local finance--Illinois.

Fiscal policy--Illinois.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The first file in this data collection provides information on the delegates to the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1870. Data include delegate's name, age, party affiliation, county and legislative district, and voting decision on several issues. The second file pertains to the local context of the vote for the Illinois Constitution of 1870, which involved a separate vote on the article forbidding lending by local government to railroads. Variables in the second data file include county, town, city, and total debts, town, city, and total population, assessed value on improvement of city and town lots, land, and railroads, number of towns and cities in each county, and number of corporations in each county.

Contents:

Part 1: Delegate Data; Part 2: Contextual (County) Data; Part 3: Codebook for All Parts

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1868; and end: 1874.

OCLC:

61163419

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.