Robin Hood's Bay, circa 1900.

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UK data using Claude (caveat emptor).

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Slope may be a bit shallower in recent decades. Not a political scientist but perhaps overall increase in living standards has reduced precarity.

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Yeah, when I was trying to replicate the impact of inflation stuff cross nationally what I thought would be an afternoon exercise spread into a week or so and despite expanding it to every macroeconomic variable I could find the results were still really weak outside the USA.

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Unstable/more complex party systems definitely a factor, but I think there was also a factor of state size - Romania simply doesn't have the a comparable level of sovereignty over it's macroeconomic variables that the US has and even domestic voters appear to acknowledge that.

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