Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282573 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10885
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 French parliamentary elections. The results suggest that urbanization was detrimental to the electoral success of lawyers but beneficial to that of employees and workers. This electoral effect of urbanization was especially felt on the left of the political spectrum, whereby left-wing employees and workers crowded out left-wing lawyers.
Subjects: 
elections
political representation
urbanization
JEL: 
D72
K16
N44
N94
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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