1. What do Husted and Kenny try to test in this paper? 2. What is their theoretical motivation for this question? How is changing voter composition supposed to affect the behaviour of governments? 3. How do poll taxes and literacy tests affect the composition of voters? 4. What are some alternate models and how do their predictions differ from the primary model? 5. How do Husted and Kenny test the hypothesis empirically? 6. What variables are used to measure 'expansion of the voting franchise' and 'size of government', respectively? What are some issues associated with these variables and the way they are measured? 7. What controls are used? Why are they used? 8. What evidence do Husted and Kenny find for/against their hypothesis? How convincing do you find this evidence