Journal of Historical Political Economy

2021 - 2025

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Volume 5, issue 1, 2025

Atlantic Slavery's Impact on European and British Economic Development pp. 1-19

Ellora Derenoncourt

Arming the Enslaved: Different Paths Taken by the US and Confederate Congresses during the American Civil War pp. 21-58

Jeffery A. Jenkins and Nicholas G. Napolio

Creating Citizen–Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty pp. 59-84

Trevon D. Logan

How Southern Politicians Reformed Textbooks to Resist Civil Rights Demands pp. 85-111

Agustina S. Paglayan

Disenfranchisement pp. 113-137

Daniel B. Jones, Werner Troesken and Randall Walsh

The Dog That Did Not Bark: The Failed Attempts to Disenfranchise African Americans in Early Twentieth Century Maryland pp. 139-166

Thomas R. Gray and Jeffery A. Jenkins

Volume 4, issue 4, 2025

Meritocracy Reimagined: Ideational Foundations of State-Building in Imperial China pp. 439-469

Peng Peng

A Theory of Trade Policy Transitions pp. 471-507

T. Renee Bowen, J. Lawrence Broz and B. Peter Rosendorff

Dictatorship, Higher Education, and Social Mobility pp. 509-545

María Angélica Bautista, Felipe González, Luis R. Martínez, Pablo Muñoz and Mounu Prem

How Did Modern Democracy Spread So Widely? pp. 547-556

David Stasavage

The Original Sin of Latin American States: Formation, Building, and Capacity pp. 557-581

Raúl Aldaz Peña and Daniel Baquero-Mendez

Volume 4, issue 3, 2024

Reassessing the Link between Revolutionary Threats and Democratization pp. 311-332

Sebastian Saiegh

Unbreakable Legacies? Redistricting, Political Capital and Political Dynasties pp. 333-359

Brenda Van Coppenolle

Randomized Controlled History? pp. 361-389

Ajay Verghese

Interrupted Continuities: Local History and Support for the Radical Right pp. 391-428

Elias Dinas and Elli Palaiologou

The Historical Origins of Economic Growth and Inequality and the Implications for Policy Today pp. 429-438

Philip T. Hoffman

Volume 4, issue 2, 2024

Introduction: Religion and Culture within Historical Political Economy pp. 153-157

Kerice Doten-Snitker, Avital Livny and Jared Rubin

Persistent Effect of Historical China's Permanent Forced Military Service System: The Emperor is Dead, Long Live the Emperor pp. 159-187

Shuo Chen and Danli Wang

The Christianization of War: How the Church Reform Movement Incentivized Armsbearing Elites to Conquer the Holy Land pp. 189-219

Jonathan Stavnskær Doucette and Jørgen Møller

The Local Politics of National Realignments: U.S. Political Transformation from the New Deal to the Religious Right pp. 221-253

Stephanie Ternullo

Trajectories of Violence against Ethnoreligious Minorities pp. 255-279

Kerice Doten-Snitker

Religious Violence and Coalition Politics in History pp. 281-309

Desiree Desierto and Mark Koyama

Volume 4, issue 1, 2024

How the Popes Helped Luther: Territorial Fragmentation and the Diffusion of Protestant Ideology pp. 1-32

Anna Grzymala-Busse

Insuring Against Hunger? The Long-Term Political Consequences of Exposure to the Dutch Famine pp. 33-58

Raluca L. Pahontu, Gerda Hooijer and David Rueda

Purging the Pulpit: The Logic of Religious Elite Removals in the Glorious Revolution pp. 59-87

Benjamin Broman

Why Was Central Europe Characterized by Political Fragmentation? pp. 89-115

Jonathan S. Doucette

Investigating the Rise and Fall of Indian Trading Houses, 1795–1822 pp. 117-151

Jeffery A. Jenkins

Volume 3, issue 4, 2024

Sovereign Defaults and International Trade: Germany and its Creditors in the 1930s pp. 459-500

Olivier Accominotti, Thilo N. H. Albers, Philipp Kessler and Kim Oosterlinck

Beyond the Classroom? Primary Schools and Rural Civic Participation pp. 501-525

Asli Cansunar and Nela Mrchkovska

Congress, the Harding Administration, and International Policy in the Early Interwar Period pp. 527-554

Justin Peck

Beyond the Personal Income Tax: Direct Taxation without Representation in Colonial Africa pp. 555-575

Daisy Ward

The Multiplant Origins of the National Market pp. 577-606

Robert Gulotty

Economic Voting during the Great Depression pp. 607-628

Juan Herreño, Matías Morales and Mathieu Pedemonte

Volume 3, issue 3, 2023

Linking Party and Congressional Agendas: New Datasets on Policymaking During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era pp. 305-335

E. J. Fagan, Bryan D. Jones and Brooke Shannon

Reform Reconsidered: The Effects of Form of Government pp. 337-362

Alexander Sahn

Gilded Age Doughfaces: Northern Democrats and Black Civil Rights pp. 363-390

Richard Barton and David A. Bateman

Media, Secret Ballot, and Democratization in the US pp. 391-425

Leopoldo Fergusson, Juan Felipe Riaño and B. K. Song

Damming the West: Sectionalism, Logrolling, and the Passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902 pp. 427-458

Michael Greenberger

Volume 3, issue 2, 2023

Federal Slavery Legislation and Voting in U.S. Gubernatorial Elections, 1840–1860 pp. 161-178

Alexander Jensen, Madeline Mader, Srinivas C. Parinandi, Anand Sokhey and Michael Byrd

De Tocqueville, Population Movements, and Revealed Institutional Preferences pp. 179-210

Hoyt Bleakley and Paul Rhode

Repression of Enslaved Americans' Protest: A Model of Escape in the Antebellum South pp. 211-236

Trellace Marie Lawrimore

Congress and the Political Economy of the Indian Removal Act pp. 237-276

Jeffery A. Jenkins and Thomas R. Gray

What Happens When the States Regulate First? Analyzing Governance of the Telegraph Industry in the Antebellum United States pp. 277-303

Srinivas C. Parinandi

Volume 3, issue 1, 2023

Local Rule, Elites, and Popular Grievances: Evidence from Ancien Régime France pp. 1-29

Anne Degrave

The Developmental Legacies of Border Buffer Zones: The Case of Military Colonialism pp. 31-63

Bogdan G. Popescu

The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832 pp. 65-93

Gary Cox, Adriane Fresh and Sebastian Saiegh

Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery pp. 95-124

David A. Bateman and Eric Schickler

Historical Exposure to Statehood, Ethnic Exclusion, and Compliance with the State pp. 125-160

Vladimir Chlouba, Jan H. Pierskalla and Erik Wibbels

Volume 2, issue 4, 2023

The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations pp. 527-551

Lee Alston, Marie Duggan and Julio A. Ramos Pastrana

Inequalities in Vote by Mail for Native Americans in the US West: The Historical Political Economy of Postal Service in Northeastern Arizona pp. 553-581

Melissa Rogers, Jean Schroedel and Joseph Dietrich

State Trust Lands and Natural Resource Use in the US Northwest pp. 583-610

Eric Alston and Steven M. Smith

Gender Gaps in Frontier Entrepreneurship? Evidence from 1901 Oklahoma Land Lottery Winners pp. 611-634

Jason Poulos

The Gendered Legacies of the Frontier and Military Enlistment Behavior pp. 635-653

Jonathan Homola, Connor Huff, Yui Nishimura and Amorae Times

Volume 2, issue 3, 2022

Careerism, Status Quo Bias, and the Politics of Congressional Apportionment pp. 391-414

Jason M. Roberts

Suffrage Reform and Financial Volatility: Reconsidering the Great Reform Act pp. 415-447

Gary Cox and Sebastian Saiegh

Fiscality, Regulation, and Policy Choice: Evidence from Declassified British Cabinet Minutes 1981–1997 pp. 449-476

Mircea Popa

Retrospective Voting in the Premodern World: The Case of Natural Disasters in the Roman Republic pp. 477-497

Thomas R. Gray and Daniel S. Smith

The Library of Babel: How (and How Not) to Use Archival Sources in Political Science pp. 499-526

Alexander Lee

Volume 2, issue 2, 2022

Rivalry and Empire: How Competition among European States Shaped Imperialism pp. 189-234

Jan P. Vogler

An Imperial Accident: Property Rights in the Philippines under U.S. Rule, 1902–1939 pp. 235-261

Leticia Arroyo Abad and Noel Maurer

Predatory Rulers, Credible Commitment, and Tax Compliance in the Ottoman Balkans pp. 263-297

Yusuf Magiya

The Merchant Guilds and the Political Economy of the Spanish Empire on the Eve of Independence pp. 299-331

Fernando Arteaga

The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa pp. 333-362

Bastian Becker

Structured Stability Spending in Late Modern Empires: Japan, Germany, Ottoman State, and Brazil pp. 363-389

Austin M. Mitchell

Volume 2, issue 1, 2022

Fiscal Policy and the Long Shadows of History pp. 1-28

Jarosław Kantorowicz

Colonialism and Institutional Persistence: Mixed Legislative Legacies in Ghana and Kenya pp. 29-64

Ken Ochieng' Opalo

Unexpectedly Mortal: The Effects of Political Violence and Commemoration on Pro-Social Behavior pp. 65-87

Vladimir Zabolotskiy

Pandemic Spikes and Broken Spears: Indigenous Resilience after the Conquest of Mexico pp. 89-133

Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Juan Espinosa-Balbuena and Saumitra Jha

Domestic Processes, External Threats, and Latin American State-Building: From Comparative Historical Analysis to Comparative Hypothesis Testing pp. 135-157

Cameron G. Thies

State Capacity and Political Participation: The Long Shadow of Ottoman Legacy pp. 159-187

Konstantinos Matakos, Sevinç Bermek and Riikka Savolainen