William Brustein
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 136146 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William Brustein |
| PRENOMES | William |
| SOBRENOME | Brustein |
| ASSINATURA | BRUSTEIN W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Antisemitism Without Jews in Germany, France and the U.S.
The Social Origins of Political Regionalism
Anti‐Semitism (Social Change)
To account for the rise of anti‐Semitism in the west in the modern period we can turn to the evolution and popularization of its four principal roots. The four roots – religious, racial, economic, and political – contain four distinct anti‐Semitic narratives, each of which entailed its own set of themes depicting Jewish malfeasance. Anti‐Semitism in the years prior to 1870 was characterized by a dislike based primarily on religious differences an…
Antisemitism
Although the persecution of Jews has a history of at least two millennia, the late nineteenth and early twentieth century witnessed a high‐water mark in hatred against Jews, especially in western Christian societies. By antisemitism we refer to hostility—rooted in the general population and expressed in sentiments, attitudes, or actions—to Jews as a collectivity. The year 1879 constitutes an appropriate embarkation point for a study of antisemiti…
European Antisemitism Before the Holocaust and the Roots of Nazism
The Socialism of Fools?
Anti-Semitism, as it has existed historically in Europe, is generally thought of as having been a phenomenon of the political right. To the extent that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century leftist movements have been found to manifest anti-Semitism, their involvement has often been suggested to be a mere fleeting and insignificant phenomenon. As such, this study seeks to examine more fully the role that the historic European left has played in…
Anti‐Semitism (Social Change)
To account for the rise of anti‐Semitism in the West in the modern period we can turn to the evolution and popularization of its four principal roots. The four roots, religious, racial, economic, and political, contain within themselves four distinct anti‐Semitic narratives, each of which entailed its own set of themes depicting Jewish malfeasance. Anti‐Semitism in the years prior to 1870 was largely characterized by a dislike based primarily on …
A Political Threat Model of Intergroup Violence
Research often links minority group size and economic conditions with levels of intergroup violence, in line with facets of group threat and structural theories of intergroup crime. Building on the group threat perspective, we investigate the political antecedents of intergroup violence. This work tests the theoretical premise that violence against minority groups increases with the strength of political parties associated with minority group int…
Balkan Anti-Semitism
The considerable difference between Bulgaria and Romania with regards to Jews and anti-Semitism makes for an intriguing case study, and the available evidence thus far appears to challenge prominent theories of European anti-Semitism. Why did Bulgaria protect its Jews despite its alliance with Nazi Germany during WWII, while anti-Semitism flourished in Romania? Were these countries equally as distinct with regards to anti-Semitism prior to the ri…
Anti-Semitism As a Response to Perceived Jewish Power
We empirically examine variation in anti-Semitic acts and attitudes in Romania and Bulgaria before the Holocaust. In Romania, where Jews comprised a large proportion of the middle class and were associated with the leadership of the communist party, anti-Semitism increased when economic conditions worsened. Further, Romanian anti-Semitism increased when the size of the Jewish population increased, but only at times when the leftist parties were g…
Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust
It is commonly accepted that the years 1899–1939 represent a highpoint in anti-Semitism in western societies. What factors account for the wave of extraordinary anti-Semitism after 1899? Was the rise of anti-Semitism between 1899 and the Holocaust uneven? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? Did Germans embrace anti-Semitism differently from French, Italian, Romanian, and British citizens? Data drawn from the annual v…
Abstracts/Résumés
Roots of Hate
How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How does anti-Semitism differ from other forms of religious, racial, and ethnic prejudice? In this 2003 book, William I. Brustein offersa truly systematic comparative and empirical examination of anti-Se…
The roots of anti-Semitism
Interwar Fascist Popularity in Europe and the Default of the Left
More than fifty years have passed since the end of World War II and the collapse of interwar fascist regimes. Yet many questions persist regarding the allure that interwar fascism had for millions of Europeans. Why fascism succeeded in attracting a sizeable following in Italy and Germany but not in England and France is one question that has received considerable scholarly attention. Explanations for national variation in interwar fascist popular…
The Logic of Evil
The Nazi Party and the German New Middle Class, 1925-1933
In studies of the social origins of the German Nazi Party, the new middle class of white-collar employees and civil servants has received scant attention. This inattention is surprising given that the German new middle class was the fastest growing segment of the German population during Weimar. This article applies an interest-based model of political behavior to the German new middle class between 1925 and 1933 to assess the model's ability to …
Joining the Nazi Party
The relative strength of competing explanations of Nazism is examined by using a sample of Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) members joining from 1925 to 1933, culled from the Berlin Document Center. Results of a national multivariate model, regressing NSDAP membership rate at the Kreise (county) level on key indicators of competing theories, lends support to what recent analysts have concluded about the Nazi electorate. The NSD…
The Logic of Evil
Why did millions of apparently sane, rational Germans join the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1933? In this provocative book, William Brustein argues that Nazi supporters were no different from citizens anywhere who select a political party or candidate they believe will promote their economic interests. roots of evil, he suggests, may be ordinary indeed. A fascinating story of how ordinary Germans joined an extraordinary party for ordinary reasons.…
The Logic of Evil
The Logic of Evil
Who Joined the Nazis and Why
The Logic of Evil
The Logic of Evil
Mapping politics
Ruler Autonomy and War in Early Modern Western Europe
Following Kant, many scholars have argued that rulers often benefit more from war than do their subjects, and thus that rulers with more autonomy from subjects will initiate more wars. They usually test this argument by focusing on whether democratic states are less prone to initiate wars than autocracies, and generally find little or no relationship. These are not adequate tests of the general argument, since they turn both ruler autonomy and th…
Regional Modes of Production and Patterns of State Formation in Western Europe
The rise of the modern territorial state in early modern western Europe was a spatially skewed process. An endogenous model of the uneven pattern of 16th-century state formation is presented. It holds that the geographical distribution of the first modern state structures was largely determined by preexisting regional differences of social and economic organization, differences emanating from the 12th century if not earlier. The model specifies t…
Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust
It is commonly accepted that the years 1899–1939 represent a highpoint in anti-Semitism in western societies. What factors account for the wave of extraordinary anti-Semitism after 1899? Was the rise of anti-Semitism between 1899 and the Holocaust uneven? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? Did Germans embrace anti-Semitism differently from French, Italian, Romanian, and British citizens? Data drawn from the annual v…
The "Red Menace" and the Rise of Italian Fascism
By stressing that a fear of socialism encouraged the rise offascism in Italy, the literature places a disproportionate emphasis on the reactive nature offascism's popular basis. I apply an interest-based theory to the rise of Italian fascism using data from the first systematic analysis of Fascist electoral strength in the critical 1921 Italian national legislative election. Results support the hypotheses that the growth of the Fascist vote came …
The geography of rebellion
A Political Threat Model of Intergroup Violence
Research often links minority group size and economic conditions with levels of intergroup violence, in line with facets of group threat and structural theories of intergroup crime. Building on the group threat perspective, we investigate the political antecedents of intergroup violence. This work tests the theoretical premise that violence against minority groups increases with the strength of political parties associated with minority group int…
Anti-Semitism As a Response to Perceived Jewish Power
We empirically examine variation in anti-Semitic acts and attitudes in Romania and Bulgaria before the Holocaust. In Romania, where Jews comprised a large proportion of the middle class and were associated with the leadership of the communist party, anti-Semitism increased when economic conditions worsened. Further, Romanian anti-Semitism increased when the size of the Jewish population increased, but only at times when the leftist parties were g…
The Political Geography of Belgian Fascism
Though Italy and Germany furnish the best known cases of fascism's political geography between the two World Wars, one of the more intriguing and less known examples of regional variation in fascist strength occurred in Belgium. In the 1936 Belgian legislative elections, the fascist Rexist movement captured over 30 percent of the popular vote in the province of Luxembourg, compared to only 9 percent in Hainaut. This study applies a general theory…
The Sociology of Nazism
In a previous paper, we tested a number of critical hypotheses derived from the three principal explanations of the sociology of Nazism. Our major finding was that the mass society, lower middle-class party of protest, and political confessionalism theses are empirically flawed. In this article, we apply an interest-based theory to the sociology of blue-collar Nazism. Using a sample of 15,006 workers who joined the Nazi Party between 1925 and 193…
A Regional Mode-of-Production Analysis of Political Behavior
Joining the Nazi Party
The relative strength of competing explanations of Nazism is examined by using a sample of Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) members joining from 1925 to 1933, culled from the Berlin Document Center. Results of a national multivariate model, regressing NSDAP membership rate at the Kreise (county) level on key indicators of competing theories, lends support to what recent analysts have concluded about the Nazi electorate. The NSD…
Class conflict and class collaboration in regional rebellions, 1500 to 1700
Balkan Anti-Semitism
The considerable difference between Bulgaria and Romania with regards to Jews and anti-Semitism makes for an intriguing case study, and the available evidence thus far appears to challenge prominent theories of European anti-Semitism. Why did Bulgaria protect its Jews despite its alliance with Nazi Germany during WWII, while anti-Semitism flourished in Romania? Were these countries equally as distinct with regards to anti-Semitism prior to the ri…
Interwar Fascist Popularity in Europe and the Default of the Left
More than fifty years have passed since the end of World War II and the collapse of interwar fascist regimes. Yet many questions persist regarding the allure that interwar fascism had for millions of Europeans. Why fascism succeeded in attracting a sizeable following in Italy and Germany but not in England and France is one question that has received considerable scholarly attention. Explanations for national variation in interwar fascist popular…
Who Joined the Nazis and Why
The roots of anti-Semitism
Mapping politics
Regional Modes of Production and Patterns of State Formation in Western Europe
The rise of the modern territorial state in early modern western Europe was a spatially skewed process. An endogenous model of the uneven pattern of 16th-century state formation is presented. It holds that the geographical distribution of the first modern state structures was largely determined by preexisting regional differences of social and economic organization, differences emanating from the 12th century if not earlier. The model specifies t…
A Regional Mode-of-Production Analysis of Political Behavior
Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914
Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660, Vol. 1
Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution
Class conflict and class collaboration in regional rebellions, 1500 to 1700
The Irony of Political Representation in France
The geography of rebellion
The Social Origins of Political Regionalism
The Political Geography of Belgian Fascism
Though Italy and Germany furnish the best known cases of fascism's political geography between the two World Wars, one of the more intriguing and less known examples of regional variation in fascist strength occurred in Belgium. In the 1936 Belgian legislative elections, the fascist Rexist movement captured over 30 percent of the popular vote in the province of Luxembourg, compared to only 9 percent in Hainaut. This study applies a general theory…
Voting and Social Structure
Rationality and Revolution. M. Taylor
The Social Origins of Political Regionalism
The Social Origins of Political Regionalism
The Rationality of Political Protest
The "Red Menace" and the Rise of Italian Fascism
By stressing that a fear of socialism encouraged the rise offascism in Italy, the literature places a disproportionate emphasis on the reactive nature offascism's popular basis. I apply an interest-based theory to the rise of Italian fascism using data from the first systematic analysis of Fascist electoral strength in the critical 1921 Italian national legislative election. Results support the hypotheses that the growth of the Fascist vote came …
The Sociology of Nazism
In a previous paper, we tested a number of critical hypotheses derived from the three principal explanations of the sociology of Nazism. Our major finding was that the mass society, lower middle-class party of protest, and political confessionalism theses are empirically flawed. In this article, we apply an interest-based theory to the sociology of blue-collar Nazism. Using a sample of 15,006 workers who joined the Nazi Party between 1925 and 193…
Ruler Autonomy and War in Early Modern Western Europe
Following Kant, many scholars have argued that rulers often benefit more from war than do their subjects, and thus that rulers with more autonomy from subjects will initiate more wars. They usually test this argument by focusing on whether democratic states are less prone to initiate wars than autocracies, and generally find little or no relationship. These are not adequate tests of the general argument, since they turn both ruler autonomy and th…
The Logic of Evil
The Logic of Evil
Mapping politics
The Logic of Evil
The Logic of Evil
Who Joined the Nazis and Why
The Logic of Evil
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