| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19201 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19201 |
| Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party | |
| Shanker Satyanath; Nico Voigtlaender; Hans-Joachim Voth | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-07-02 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to the literature exploring the “dark side” of social capital, examining the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We collect new data on the density of associations in 229 German towns and cities. Denser networks of clubs and societies went hand-in-hand with a more rapid rise of the Nazi Party. Towns with one standard deviation higher association density saw at least 15% faster Nazi Party entry. All types of societies – from veteran associations to animal breeders, chess clubs and choirs – positively predict NS Party entry. Party membership, in turn, is correlated with electoral success. These results suggest that social capital aided the rise of the Nazi movement that ultimately destroyed Germany’s first democracy. Crucially, we examine the question when a vibrant civic society can have corrosive effects. We show that the effects of social capital depended on the political context – in federal states with more stable governments, higher association density was not associated with faster Nazi Party entry. |
| 主题 | History ; Macroeconomic History ; Other History ; Other ; Economic Systems ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19201 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576874 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shanker Satyanath,Nico Voigtlaender,Hans-Joachim Voth. Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party. 2013. |
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