Spending and Taxation Patterns for Municipal Corporations, Local Boards and the Urban Sanitary Authorities in England and Wales, Selected Years, 1868-1888

The data set was created as part of the ESRC funded project Economic Policy and Political Myopia. The aim of the project was to study the degree of political myopia in public policy today and in the past both from an empirical and a theoretical perspective. The data on fiscal outcomes in municipal boroughs in 1868-1888 was collected to investigate the link between spending on urban sanitation and the local voting franchise.