Political Extremism in the 1920s and 1930s: Do German Lessons Generalize?
研究了大萧条对1920-1930年代选举中右翼极端分子得票率的影响，发现经济衰退与极端主义相关，且影响在民主历史短、选举门槛低、一战战败国中更显著。
We examine the impact of the Great Depression on the share of votes for right-wing extremists in elections in the 1920s and 1930s. We confirm the existence of a link between political extremism and economic hard times as captured by growth or contraction of the economy. What mattered was not simply growth at the time of the election, but cumulative growth performance. The impact was greatest in countries with relatively short histories of democracy, with electoral systems that created low hurdles to parliamentary representation, and which had been on the losing side in World War I.