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Migrating Extremists

Published:2020-03-26 Issue:628 Volume:130 Page:1135-1172
ISSN:0013-0133
Container-title:The Economic Journal
language:en
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Author:

Ochsner Christian¹,Roesel Felix¹²

Affiliation:

1. CERGE-EI Prague, Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

2. ifo Institute and Technische Universität Dresden

Abstract

AbstractWe show that migrating extremists can shape political equilibria in the long run. Regions in Austria that witnessed an influx of Nazis fleeing the Soviets after WWII still have significantly higher far-right vote shares today. Institutions and family ties perpetuate persistence. Migrated Nazi elites founded and penetrated local party branches that cultivate and preserve far-right ideologies, even when outside conditions temporarily change. Phonebook entries from 1942 allow tracing current far-right party membership back to past migration. Our results suggest that controlling migrating extremists is crucial to contain the spread of radical movements.

Funder

German Research Foundation

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Economics and Econometrics

Link

http://academic.oup.com/ej/article-pdf/130/628/1135/33377391/ueaa017.pdf

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