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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP9595
	DP9595 Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany: 1919-33
	Hans-Joachim Voth; Nico Voigtländer; Shanker Satyanath
发表日期	2013-08-11
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	Social capital ? a dense network of associations facilitating cooperation within a community ? typically leads to positive political and economic outcomes, as demonstrated by a large literature following Putnam. A growing literature emphasizes the potentially ?dark side? of social capital. This paper examines the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany by analyzing Nazi party entry rates in a cross-section of towns and cities. Before the Nazi Party?s triumphs at the ballot box, it built an extensive organizational structure, becoming a mass movement with nearly a million members by early 1933. We show that dense networks of civic associations such as bowling clubs, animal breeder associations, or choirs facilitated the rise of the Nazi Party. The effects are large: Towns with one standard deviation higher association density saw at least one-third faster growth in the strength of the Nazi Party. IV results based on 19th century measures of social capital reinforce our conclusions. In addition, all types of associations ? veteran associations and non-military clubs, ?bridging? and ?bonding? associations ? positively predict NS party entry. These results suggest that social capital in Weimar Germany aided the rise of the Nazi movement that ultimately destroyed Germany?s first democracy.
主题	Economic History ; International Macroeconomics
关键词	Democracy Extremism Social capital
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp9595
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538431
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hans-Joachim Voth,Nico Voigtländer,Shanker Satyanath. DP9595 Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany: 1919-33. 2013.