?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpublications.ut-capitole.fr%2Fid%2Feprint%2F49361%2F&rft.title=Peasants+into+Citizens%3A+Suffrage+Expansion+and+Mass+Politics+in+France&rft.creator=Degrave%2C+Anne-Fran%C3%A7oise&rft.creator=Lopez-Peceno%2C+Alejandro&rft.creator=Rozenas%2C+Arturas&rft.subject=B-+ECONOMIE+ET+FINANCE&rft.description=The+rise+of+mass+politics+is+conventionally+attributed+to+state+expansion+and+economic+modernization.+We+propose+a+complementary+institutional+explanation%2C+highlight-ing+how+the+expansion+of+voting+rights+politicizes+the+general+public+and+enhances+their+mobilization+capacity.+To+test+this+argument%2C+we+use+discontinuous+variation+in+suffrage+levels+in+the+French+local+elections+during+the+July+Monarchy+(1830-1848).+Communes+with+more+suffrage+later+showed+a+heightened+interest+in+public+affairs%2C+capacity+for+collective+mobilization%2C+and+opposition+to+autocracy.+Even+when+intro-duced+and+practiced+in+an+autocratic+system%2C+the+right+to+vote+seems+to+encourage+the+development+of+a+pro-democratic+mass+public.&rft.publisher=TSE+Working+Paper&rft.date=2024-04&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpublications.ut-capitole.fr%2Fid%2Feprint%2F49361%2F1%2Fwp_tse_1529.pdf&rft.identifier=++Degrave%2C+Anne-Fran%C3%A7oise+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.idref.fr%2F176016953%3E%2C+Lopez-Peceno%2C+Alejandro+and+Rozenas%2C+Arturas++(2024)+Peasants+into+Citizens%3A+Suffrage+Expansion+and+Mass+Politics+in+France.++TSE+Working+Paper%2C+n.+24-1529%2C+Toulouse+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Ftse-fr.eu%2Fpub%2F129319&rft.language=en