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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Highway to Hitler |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 156 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 (P) 1664-705X (E) |
| Number of Pages | 37 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Abstract Text | Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship - the building of the motorway network in Nazi Germany. The Autobahn was one of the most important projects of the Hitler government. It was intended to reduce unemployment, and was widely used for propaganda purposes. We examine its role in increasing support for the NS regime by analyzing new data on motorway construction and the 1934 plebiscite, which gave Hitler great powers as head of state. Our results suggest that road building was highly effective, reducing opposition to the nascent Nazi regime. |
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| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp156.pdf |
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| Keywords | Political economy, infrastructure spending, dictatorships, pork‐barrel politics, Nazi regime, Nationalsozialismus, Drittes Reich, Autobahn, Diktatur, Politische Ökonomie, Infrastruktur, Infrastrukturpolitik, Deutsches Reich |