Elite Influence? Religion and the Electoral Success of the Nazis

Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Tillmann, Philipp

doi:10.1111/ajps.12328

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“…While religiosity can often promote more socially conservative political preferences (Roth 2008), the affiliation with a religious community can prevent voters from favouring extremism. Spenkuch and Tillmann (2016)…”

Section: Democracy and Good Governancementioning

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The Ambivalent Role of Religion for Sustainable Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence

2017

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Section: Democracy and Good Governancementioning

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The Ambivalent Role of Religion for Sustainable Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence

2017

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“…As of 2017, more than 80% of the world's population identified with a religious group, and the number of Muslims and Christians was expected to increase even further in the coming decades (Pew Research Center ). Religious ideas and identities affect politics in many ways, including political preferences (McKenzie and Rouse ; Spenkuch and Tillmann ), foreign policy choices, and democratization processes (Fox ; Philpott ; Toft, Philpott, and Shah ).…”

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Universal Love or One True Religion? Experimental Evidence of the Ambivalent Effect of Religious Ideas on Altruism and Discrimination

Hoffmann

Basedau

Gobien

et al. 2019

American J Political Sci

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Contrary to the expectations of secularization theory, religion remains socially important and affects politics in multiple ways—especially regarding conflict between religious communities. Theoretically, religion can increase altruism, but belief in the superiority of one's faith may facilitate intergroup discrimination and related conflict. Previous findings remain inconclusive, however, as specific religious ideas have hardly been tested. In this article, we argue that the content of religious ideas has causal effects on intergroup discrimination. We hence test the impact of two opposing, prominent religious ideas on altruism and discrimination: universal love and the notion of one true religion. Conducting dictator games with Christians and Muslims in Ghana and Tanzania, we find causal effects: Whereas the idea of one true religion increases intergroup discrimination, that of universal love fosters equal treatment. The policy implications hereof are obvious—promoting tolerant religious ideas seems crucial to avoiding conflict.

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“…Online Appendix Table A.18 shows descriptive statistics for this dataset. dignitaries against the Nazis (Deuerlein 1963, Spenkuch andTillmann 2018), while Protestant regions were strongholds of the NSDAP (Fandel 2002).…”

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Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in Germany over 600 Years

Becker

Pascali

2019

American Economic Review

117

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We study the role of economic incentives in shaping the coexistence of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants, using novel data from Germany for 1,000+ cities. The Catholic usury ban and higher literacy rates gave Jews a specific advantage in the moneylending sector. Following the Protestant Reformation (1517), the Jews lost these advantages in regions that became Protestant. We show (i) a change in the geography of anti-Semitism with persecutions of Jews and anti-Jewish publications becoming more common in Protestant areas relative to Catholic areas; (ii) a more pronounced change in cities where Jews had already established themselves as moneylenders. These findings are consistent with the interpretation that, following the Protestant Reformation, Jews living in Protestant regions were exposed to competition with the Christian majority, especially in moneylending, leading to an increase in anti-Semitism. (JEL D74, J15, N33, N43, N93)

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Elite Influence? Religion and the Electoral Success of the Nazis

Cited by 65 publications

References 23 publications

The Ambivalent Role of Religion for Sustainable Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence

The Ambivalent Role of Religion for Sustainable Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence

Universal Love or One True Religion? Experimental Evidence of the Ambivalent Effect of Religious Ideas on Altruism and Discrimination

Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in Germany over 600 Years

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