Economic and Political Reactions to the World Economic Crisis of the 1930s in Six European Countries

Zimmermann, Ekkart; Saalfeld, Thomas

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“…Research on questions about how income affects voting behaviour has primarily focused on the impact of economic crisis on political stability. Zimmermann and Saalfeld (1988) find that the economic crisis of the 1930s had powerful political effects in Europe, but that the extent to which it undermined the political stability of the state was conditioned by the success of national consensus formation at the elite level. Bohrer and Tan (2000) argues that 'austerity' plans enacted by European states to bring their economies into compliance with the European Monetary Union (EMU) requirements caused voters to support parties of the Left in greater numbers than before.…”

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confidence: 92%

Party organization and party proliferation in India

Chhibber¹,

Jensenius²,

Suryanarayan

2012

Party Politics

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Theories that explain variations in party systems typically emphasize the role of political institutions and social cleavages. Using a panel dataset of election returns from 15 Indian states from 1967 to 2004. this article establishes considerable variation in the effective number of parties across states and over time, despite the same political institutions and relatively stable social cleavages. We argue that a hitherto ignored dimension, the level of party organization, has a significant impact on the nature of the party system. The level of party organization incentivizes politicians differently in terms of their decision to stay, join another party or float a new party, when their ambitions are thwarted within a party. To test this theory, a unique indicator of party organization is developed on the basis of extensive qualitative research. We find that in Indian states where parties are more organized, both the effective number of parties and electoral volatility are lower.

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Section: Model Choices and Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Party organization and party proliferation in India

Chhibber¹,

Jensenius²,

Suryanarayan

2012

Party Politics

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“…A pesar de los problemas que se derivan hacia la economía, dentro del ámbito político, este tipo de eventos pueden permitir márgenes de maniobra a los gobernantes. Si el problema económico se atribuye a shocks internacionales, los mandatarios pueden evadir el precio político y tener mayor margen de manejo sobre la toma de decisiones (Remmer, 1991;Zimmermann & Saalfeld, 1988). Las crisis provocan cambios que, para los cientistas políticos, se encuentran relacionados con un profundo desenlace institucional (Corrales, 1997).…”

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“…Sin embargo, se ha estudiado más la coyuntura económica y política de las décadas posteriores que la de 1930(Remmer, 1991;Corrales, 1997;Eichengreen, 2012), en donde pocos estudios indican su importancia(Zimmermann & Saalfeld, 1988).…”

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Crisis económica e [in]estabilidad política: la política latinoamericana frente a la Gran Depresión de 1930

Curvale

Arrobo

2022

Lect. Econ.

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Este artículo analiza la ocurrencia de múltiples golpes de estado en los países de América Latina alrededor del año 1930. Entre 1924 y 1935 hubo diecisiete golpes, los cuales comenzaron con Chile y Honduras, y fueron seguidos por otros países que experimentaron los primeros golpes militares en su historia. Debido a que la expansión económica de América Latina en esa época dependía principalmente de las exportaciones y, por lo tanto, era vulnerable a las crisis externas, la crisis económica mundial de la década de 1930 es sospechosa de haber tenido un impacto negativo en el desempeño económico de la región. Lo anterior pudo haber provocado que los malos resultados económicos hayan socavado la resistencia de las instituciones políticas. Pero también hubo procesos paralelos de incorporación política de trabajadores y campesinos en la región. Para probar estas hipótesis, se utilizaron modelos de regresión logísticos. Se encontró que variables económicas con rezagos y las variables de incorporación política explicarían la inestabilidad política que se suscitó en ese periodo de tiempo, mientras que las de movilización social lo harían en menor medida.

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“…The inclusion of 18 countries and many variables in this interesting analysis, however, cannot but leave the more detailed aspects of the strategies of political actors in political crises unexplored. For an actor-based analysis of the political reactions to the socio-economic consequences of the Great Depression in some European democracies, see the analysis by Zimmermann & Saalfeld (1988). More focused on political strategies is instead a more recent piece by Zimmermann (1993), where most of the attention is devoted to the Weimar case.…”

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Defending democracy: Reactions to political extremism in inter–war Europe

Capoccia

2001

European J Political Res

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While the strategies of political actors and institutions have been largely analyzed with reference to cases of democratic breakdown, democratic survival has often been viewed as a consequence of socio-economic and cultural 'preconditions'. The analysis of successful reactions to strong extremist challenges in three cases of democratic survival (Czechoslovakia, Finland and Belgium in the inter-war period) against the background of two cases of breakdown in the same historical context (Italy and the Weimar Republic) is a useful complement to this view. The analysis of the selected cases shows how a stable coalition of democratic forces can effectively protect the democratic system from dangerous extremist attacks by pursuing both repressive and inclusive strategies.

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Economic and Political Reactions to the World Economic Crisis of the 1930s in Six European Countries

Cited by 53 publications

References 20 publications

Party organization and party proliferation in India

Party organization and party proliferation in India

Crisis económica e [in]estabilidad política: la política latinoamericana frente a la Gran Depresión de 1930

Defending democracy: Reactions to political extremism in inter–war Europe

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