Elite Influence? Religion and the Electoral Success of the Nazis

被引:40
作者
Spenkuch, Jorg L. [1 ]
Tillmann, Philipp [2 ]
机构
[1] Northwestern Univ, Kellogg Sch Management, 2211 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[2] Anal Grp, 111 Huntington Ave,14th Floor, Boston, MA 02199 USA
关键词
RISE;
D O I
10.1111/ajps.12328
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
In Weimar Germany, the Catholic Church vehemently warned ordinary parishioners about the dangers of extremist parties. We establish that constituencies' religious composition is a key empirical predictor of Nazi vote shares-dwarfing the explanatory power of any other demographic or socioeconomic variable. Even after carefully accounting for observational differences, Catholics were far less likely to vote for the NSDAP than their Protestant counterparts. The evidence suggests that this disparity was, in large part, due to the sway of the Catholic Church and its dignitaries. At the same time, we show that attempts to immunize Catholics against the radical left failed to achieve the desired result. To explain the puzzling asymmetry in the Church's influence at the ballot box, we develop a simple theoretical framework of elite influence in electoral politics.
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页码:19 / 36
页数:18
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