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Type Other Publication
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Replication data for "Ordinary economic voting in the extraordinary election of Adolf Hitler"
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Gary King
  • Orin Rosen
  • Martin A. Tanner
  • Alexander Wagner
Language
  • English
How Published Journal of Economic History
Date 2008
Abstract Text The enormous Nazi voting literature rarely builds on modern statistical or economic research. By adding these approaches, we find that the most widely accepted existing theories of this era cannot distinguish the Weimar elections from almost any others in any country. Via a retrospective voting account, we show that voters most hurt by the depression, and most likely to oppose the government, fall into separate groups with divergent interests. This explains why some turned to the Nazis and others turned away. The consequences of Hitler's election were extraordinary, but the voting behavior that led to it was not.
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