The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison

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• Erik Bengtsson (Lund University), co-authored with Felix Kersting (Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Wednesday 24 April 2024, 13:15-14:45
• Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

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This paper explores the political consequences of land inequality. We turn to the paradigmatic cases of Prussia as the locus classicus of the pernicious effects of landlordism and Sweden, often perceived to be Prussia’s opposite with a farmer-dominated social structure leading to stable democratization during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contrary to prevailing theories associating land inequality with anti-democratic attitudes, the results indicate no positive correlation between different measures of land inequality and electoral support for the conservative and Nazi parties. For our analysis, we collect comparable regional data on land inequality measures and voting outcomes for both countries.

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This talk is part of the Quantitative History Seminar series.

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