Germany1933vote: Voting patterns in the 1933 German national election

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Voting patterns in the 1933 German national election

Description

1933 was the year that Hitler and the Nazi party came to power. The initial basis for this was a national election in which the Nazis secured a substantial fraction of the vote. (Immediately after the election, the Nazis burned the Reichtag (the German parliament) and started repressing their political opposition though a campaign of imprisonment and murder.)

Usage

data("Germany1933vote")

Format

A data frame with 681 rows and 7 variables. Each row is a German precinct.

• self: share of potential voters who are self-employed

• blue: share of potential voters who are blue-collar workers

• white: share of potential voters who are white-collar workers

• domestic: share of potential voters who are employed domestically

• unemployed: share of potential voters who are un-employed

• nvoter: number of eligible voters (not clear if this include people who didn't vote)

• nazivote: number of votes for the Nazis

References

• Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL from whence these data were added to this package. In QSS, the data are called nazis.

• G. King, O. Rosen, M. Tanner, A.F. Wagner (2008) “Ordinary economic voting behavior in the extraordinary election of Adolf Hitler.” Journal of Economic History, vol. 68, pp. 951–996.#'

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