Felix Roesel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4278760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felix Roesel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felix |
| FAMILY NAME | Roesel |
| SIGNATURE | ROESEL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3260-0572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tram networks and urban mobility
What role do tram networks play in shaping urban mobility? We study the case of West Germany, where many cities decommissioned their tram systems, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. Using data covering 120 German cities between 1948 and 1990, we analyse how tram decommissionings affected vehicle ownership and public transport use in the long run. Difference-in-differences and event study estimations show that cities that decommissioned their trams ex…
How contagious are health shocks on political outcomes? Evidence from the 1918 Spanish flu in Germany
Do large health shocks spill over into politics, and can public infrastructure mitigate such contagion? We examine the long-term political effects of serious health emergencies and the moderating role of hospital infrastructure. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, four out of every 1000 Germans died. We find that influenza mortality rates were lower and did not have political consequences in cities and in rural areas with adequate hospital infr…
Elite Persistence and Policy Persistence
Why do public policies change little over time in individual places, sometimes for centuries? We investigate different mechanisms for policy persistence. Several city mayors serving in democratic Weimar Germany were expelled by the Nazis in 1933 but re-installed by the Allies after World War II. We find that pre-Nazi patterns in public debt re-appear in cities with a re-installed mayor, albeit all city debt defaulted after the war. We do not find…
Online versus offline
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies
Can staying minorities who evade ethnic cleansing affect political outcomes in resettled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left‐leaning antifascists. We study quasi‐experimental local variation in expulsion policies, a result of the surprising presence of the U.S. Army, which indirectly helped antifascist Germans stay. We find…
The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019
I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all German municipalities, counties, and states at consistent contemporary boundaries (31 December 2019). The database was hand-collected and assembled from more than 50 sources. The data reflect 150 years of region…
Compulsory voting and political participation
Electoral Externalities in Federations – Evidence from German Opinion Polls
The performance of parties at the national level is likely to influence election results at the local level, and vice versa. However, researchers have not yet quantified those electoral externalities. We apply vector autoregressions with predetermined variables to new high‐frequency opinion poll data for the German state of Berlin, measuring voting intentions of Berlin voters for the state parliament and for the national parliament. Our results s…
Migrating Extremists
We 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. Phoneb…
A banana republic? The effects of inconsistencies in the counting of votes on voting behavior
The urban–rural gap in healthcare infrastructure
Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as healthcare facilities have substantial socioeconomic effects. Little is known, however, about why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. This study exploits narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and 2014 in a regression discontinuity (RD) framework to show that government ideology influences the urban–rural gap in public infrastructure. Left-wi…
Merging county administrations – cross-national evidence of fiscal and political effects
While many central governments amalgamate municipalities, mergers of larger county administrations are rare and hardly explored. In this article, we assess both fiscal and political effects of county mergers in two different institutional settings: counties act autonomously as upper-level local governments (Germany), or counties being decentralised branches of the state government (Austria). We apply difference-in-differences estimations to count…
Merging county administrations – cross-national evidence of fiscal and political effects
While many central governments amalgamate municipalities, mergers of larger county administrations are rare and hardly explored. In this article, we assess both fiscal and political effects of county mergers in two different institutional settings: counties act autonomously as upper-level local governments (Germany), or counties being decentralised branches of the state government (Austria). We apply difference-in-differences estimations to count…
Migrating Extremists
We 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. Phoneb…
The urban–rural gap in healthcare infrastructure
Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as healthcare facilities have substantial socioeconomic effects. Little is known, however, about why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. This study exploits narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and 2014 in a regression discontinuity (RD) framework to show that government ideology influences the urban–rural gap in public infrastructure. Left-wi…
Online versus offline
A banana republic? The effects of inconsistencies in the counting of votes on voting behavior
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies
Can staying minorities who evade ethnic cleansing affect political outcomes in resettled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left‐leaning antifascists. We study quasi‐experimental local variation in expulsion policies, a result of the surprising presence of the U.S. Army, which indirectly helped antifascist Germans stay. We find…
A banana republic? The effects of inconsistencies in the counting of votes on voting behavior
The urban–rural gap in healthcare infrastructure
Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as healthcare facilities have substantial socioeconomic effects. Little is known, however, about why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. This study exploits narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and 2014 in a regression discontinuity (RD) framework to show that government ideology influences the urban–rural gap in public infrastructure. Left-wi…
Merging county administrations – cross-national evidence of fiscal and political effects
While many central governments amalgamate municipalities, mergers of larger county administrations are rare and hardly explored. In this article, we assess both fiscal and political effects of county mergers in two different institutional settings: counties act autonomously as upper-level local governments (Germany), or counties being decentralised branches of the state government (Austria). We apply difference-in-differences estimations to count…
Compulsory voting and political participation
Electoral Externalities in Federations – Evidence from German Opinion Polls
The performance of parties at the national level is likely to influence election results at the local level, and vice versa. However, researchers have not yet quantified those electoral externalities. We apply vector autoregressions with predetermined variables to new high‐frequency opinion poll data for the German state of Berlin, measuring voting intentions of Berlin voters for the state parliament and for the national parliament. Our results s…
Migrating Extremists
We 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. Phoneb…
The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019
I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all German municipalities, counties, and states at consistent contemporary boundaries (31 December 2019). The database was hand-collected and assembled from more than 50 sources. The data reflect 150 years of region…
Online versus offline
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies
Can staying minorities who evade ethnic cleansing affect political outcomes in resettled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left‐leaning antifascists. We study quasi‐experimental local variation in expulsion policies, a result of the surprising presence of the U.S. Army, which indirectly helped antifascist Germans stay. We find…
Elite Persistence and Policy Persistence
Why do public policies change little over time in individual places, sometimes for centuries? We investigate different mechanisms for policy persistence. Several city mayors serving in democratic Weimar Germany were expelled by the Nazis in 1933 but re-installed by the Allies after World War II. We find that pre-Nazi patterns in public debt re-appear in cities with a re-installed mayor, albeit all city debt defaulted after the war. We do not find…
Tram networks and urban mobility
What role do tram networks play in shaping urban mobility? We study the case of West Germany, where many cities decommissioned their tram systems, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. Using data covering 120 German cities between 1948 and 1990, we analyse how tram decommissionings affected vehicle ownership and public transport use in the long run. Difference-in-differences and event study estimations show that cities that decommissioned their trams ex…
How contagious are health shocks on political outcomes? Evidence from the 1918 Spanish flu in Germany
Do large health shocks spill over into politics, and can public infrastructure mitigate such contagion? We examine the long-term political effects of serious health emergencies and the moderating role of hospital infrastructure. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, four out of every 1000 Germans died. We find that influenza mortality rates were lower and did not have political consequences in cities and in rural areas with adequate hospital infr…
Politics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · German (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)