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DESCRIPTION:Anne Degrave\, “Elite Attitudes and the Unraveling of Democracy
 : Evidence from French Second Republic”\, IAST Lunch Seminar\, Toulouse: I
 AST\, November 7\, 2025\, 12:45–13:00\, room Auditorium 4 (First Floor - T
 SE Building).\n\nWhy do elites choose to support or undermine a nascent de
 mocracy\, and are voting rights and civil liberties similarly threatened i
 n this process? To explain the historical emergence and stabilization of t
 he first wave of European democracies\, a vast political economy literatur
 e has emphasized the threat of unrest\, inequality\, as well as individual
  electoral motives. There is however limited evidence on legislators' pref
 erences toward democratization aside from a few prominent cases. In additi
 on\, reversals often receive less attention than successful transitions\, 
 and democratization is typically operationalized only in a narrow sense th
 rough suffrage extension. \nWe address this gap by investigating conservat
 ive elites' attitudes toward democracy in a broader sense\, analyzing thei
 r vote on laws restricting both suffrage and civil liberties\, in a contex
 t of democratic backsliding. We draw from the case of the French Second Re
 public (1848-1852)\, the first European regime to establish universal suff
 rage and broad civil liberties. Democratization was short-lived\, with the
  election of an anti-republican president in December 1848 and a conservat
 ive legislative assembly in May 1849. Between May 1849 and November 1851\,
  the assembly passed several laws weakening democracy\, including restrict
 ions of suffrage and civil liberties. We collect roll-call data on eight a
 nti-democratic laws and combine it with detailed information on deputies' 
 biography\, exposure to unrest\, and socio-economic characteristics of the
 ir district. \nWe find that conservative support for anti-democratic laws 
 was high but gradually declined\, including among right-wing legislators e
 lected in very unequal areas. Exposure to local unrest has little effect o
 n legislators' vote\, and when it does it reduces their support for suffra
 ge restrictions. Finally\, attitudes toward suffrage and civil liberties g
 radually diverge\, with the emergence of anti-democratic and pro-universal
  suffrage attitudes - personified by the president and later emperor Louis
 -Napoleon Bonaparte.
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LOCATION:Toulouse: IAST\, November 7\, 2025\, 12:45–13:00\, room Auditorium
  4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
SUMMARY:IAST Lunch Seminar
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.iast.fr/seminars/2025-elite-attitudes-and-unraveli
 ng-democracy-evidence-french-second-republic
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