The Economic Crisis of the 1930s and the Nazi Vote
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4010407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jurgen W Falter (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Reinhard Zintl (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/204223 |
| OpenAlex | W2023267154 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
The Economic Crisis of the 1930s and the Nazi Vote The increase of electoral support of the Nazi party during thc last years of the Weimar Republic is part of one of thc most dramatic instances of the breakdown of a democratic regime involving thc democratic proccss itself.Schotars studying this cra do not dispute the fact that economic conditions played a role in this proccss.What is disputed is what role economics played.Compcting interpretations range from those which assert that the breakdown resulted from the dissolution of former protective structurcs in the society to those which find nothing exceptional in the events, explaining them simply as a case in which the electorate punished thc governing parties for unsatisfactory performance by voting for the opposition.What this latter view considers exceptional is only the character of the main opposition party, namely the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP or National Socialist German Workers' Party), but not the fact that it gathered so many votes.Between these extremes we find intcrpretations which identify a Iasting change of voting patterns inside the boundaries of existing societal and ideological cleavages.This article confronts the competing interpretations and examincs thcir empirical bascs.Wc do not try to explain why the NSDAP was so successful in exploiting mass frustration at that particular time.Rathcr, we try to obtain information about the voting potential that it drew upon and in what way it did so.In short, we attempt to describe what happened, not why it happened
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2019 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |