As atuais ameaças à democracia não são apenas políticas: estão profundamente
enraizadas nas condições econômicas, sociais e culturais de hoje. Maior referência no …

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy?
What role do they play in a dictatorial regime? We study these questions in the context of …

Does the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood affect voting for far right-wing
parties? We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) that, under the leadership …

How persistent are cultural traits? Using data on anti-Semitism in Germany, we find local
continuity over 600 years. Jews were often blamed when the Black Death killed at least a …

Using newly collected data on association density in 229 towns and cities in interwar
Germany, we show that denser social networks were associated with faster entry into the …

Abstract The Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Credit Crisis of the 2000s had
similar causes but elicited strikingly different policy responses. While it remains too early to …

Plagued by structural unemployment throughout the 1920s, the German economy went
through a sharp contraction after 1929, followed by complete recovery and the restoration of …

We study the link between fiscal austerity and Nazi electoral success. Voting data from a
thousand districts and a hundred cities for four elections between 1930 and 1933 show that …

This paper analyses how institutional factors affect satisfaction with democracy (SWD). It
employs a panel of observations from Eurobarometers in the time span 1990–2000, and …

This book sets out to unearth the hidden genealogies of democracy, and particularly its most
widely recognized, commonly discussed and deeply symbolic act, voting. By exploring the …