Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia

Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Roesel, Felix

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“…Nevertheless, Falter (1981, 255) also reports the expellees' share negatively correlates with CDU voting. Other studies suggest left-leaning inhabitants of the Sudetenland, an area of emerging Czechoslovakia from which many expellees coming to Baden-Württemberg originated, did not leave because the Red Army did not force them to leave (sometimes because of collaboration against the Nazis) or because they did not feel threatened by a communist regime (Grossmann et al 2021). Such narratives would suggest that expellees' political preferences were, if anything, skewed towards smaller, anticommunist governments.…”

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Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg

Fiorini,

Jetter,

Parmeter

et al. 2023

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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We examine whether electoral preferences depend on a community's population size by studying post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg in Southwest Germany. Our identification strategy exploits the fact that the French administration zone prohibited German expellees from entering, contrary to the contiguous American zone. Population size positively predicts voting for the Social Democrats (the party advocating substantial government involvement in practically all domains) and negatively for the Christian Democrats (the small-government party advocating free-market policies). Results are neither driven by pre-existing voting patterns, religious compositions, and location- and time-specific unobservables, nor other measurable cultural, demographic, economic, or political characteristics. Alternative explanations pertaining to expellee voting behaviour or a backlash of natives against expellees appear unlikely – population size prevails as a predominant voting predictor.

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Section: Expellee Votingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg

Fiorini,

Jetter,

Parmeter

et al. 2023

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Forced displacement in history: Some recent research

Becker

2022

Aust Econ Hist Rev

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Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long‐run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarises some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes covered refer to Europe, this survey points to literature across all continents. It highlights new developments, and points to gaps in the literature.

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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia

Cited by 2 publications

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Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg

Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg

Forced displacement in history: Some recent research

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