“…From the empirical standpoint, similarly to the approach used for codifying "ideology", I rely on the results of the confidence vote on the "Fortis II" government to determine the MPs stance on the issue (dummy equal to one if the MP voted "yes" in the "Fortis II" confidence vote). In Column 4 to 6, I use data for 1905 wine production only, instead of the [1901][1902][1903][1904][1905] average. In Column 7 to 9, I alleviate the hypothesis that absences among MPs during the vote followed a random distribution (i.e.…”