The long-term impact of the location of concentration camps on radical-right voting in Germany
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- dc.contributor.author Hoerner, Julian M.
- dc.contributor.author Jaax, Alexander
- dc.contributor.author Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni
- dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-13T07:52:20Z
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- dc.date.issued 2019
- dc.description.abstract Of all atrocities committed by state actors in 20th century Europe, the systematic killings by Nazi Germany were arguably the most severe and best documented. While several studies have investigated the impact of the presence of concentration camps on surrounding communities in Germany and the occupied territories in terms of redistribution of wealth and property, the local-level impact on voting behaviour has not yet been explored. We investigated the impact of spatial proximity to a concentration camp between 1933 and 1945 on the likelihood of voting for far-right parties in the 2013 and 2017 federal elections. We find that proximity to a former concentration camp is associated with a higher vote share of such parties. A potential explanation for this finding could be a ‘memory satiation effect’, according to which voters who live in close proximity to former camps and are more frequently confronted with the past are more receptive to revisionist historical accounts questioning the centrality of the Holocaust in the German culture of remembrance.
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- dc.identifier.citation Hoerner JM, Jaax A, Rodon T. The long-term impact of the location of concentration camps on radical-right voting in Germany. RAP. 2019;6(4):1-8. DOI: 10.1177/2053168019891376
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053168019891376
- dc.identifier.issn 2053-1680
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47096
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher SAGE Publications
- dc.relation.ispartof Research & Politics. 2019;6(4):1-8
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- dc.subject.keyword Voting behaviour
- dc.subject.keyword Long-term effect
- dc.subject.keyword Far right
- dc.subject.keyword Germany
- dc.subject.keyword Mass violence
- dc.subject.keyword Culture of memory
- dc.title The long-term impact of the location of concentration camps on radical-right voting in Germany
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