Replication Data for: War and Nationalism: How WW1 battle deaths fueled civilians' support for the Nazi Party (doi:10.7910/DVN/WOEWJ3)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: War and Nationalism: How WW1 battle deaths fueled civilians' support for the Nazi Party

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/WOEWJ3

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2023-03-30

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Bibliographic Citation:

De Juan, Alexander; Haass, Felix; Koos, Carlo; Riaz, Sascha; Tichelbaecker, Thomas, 2023, "Replication Data for: War and Nationalism: How WW1 battle deaths fueled civilians' support for the Nazi Party", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WOEWJ3, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:uVPI65U/rK4yg/t5INfWmQ== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: War and Nationalism: How WW1 battle deaths fueled civilians' support for the Nazi Party

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/WOEWJ3

Authoring Entity:

De Juan, Alexander (Osnabrueck University)

Haass, Felix (University of Oslo)

Koos, Carlo (University of Bergen)

Riaz, Sascha (University of Oxford)

Tichelbaecker, Thomas (Princeton University)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Haass, Felix

Depositor:

Haass, Felix

Date of Deposit:

2022-11-14

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WOEWJ3

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences

Abstract:

Can wars breed nationalism? We argue that civilians' indirect exposure to war fatalities can trigger psychological processes that increase identification with their nation and ultimately strengthen support for nationalist parties. We test this argument in the context of the rise of the Nazi Party after World War 1. To measure localized war exposure, we machine-coded information on all 8.6 million German soldiers who were wounded or died in WW1. Our empirical strategy leverages battlefield dynamics that cause plausibly exogenous variation in the county-level casualty fatality rate---the share of dead soldiers among all casualties. We find that throughout the interwar period, electoral support for right-wing nationalist parties, including the Nazi Party, was 2.6 percentage points higher in counties with above-median casualty fatality rates. Consistent with our proposed mechanism, we find that this effect was driven by civilians rather than veterans and areas with a preexisting tradition of collective war commemoration.

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Citation

Identification Number:

10.1017/S000305542300014X

Bibliographic Citation:

DE JUAN, ALEXANDER, FELIX HAASS, CARLO KOOS, SASCHA RIAZ, and THOMAS TICHELBAECKER. 2023. “War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party.” American Political Science Review, 1–19.

File Description--f6926559

File: abel_letters.tab

Number of cases: 579
No. of variables per record: 21
Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

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Variable Description

List of Variables:

geburtsjahr - Year of birth
writer_status_n - Combat veteran (0), Non-combat veteran (1), Civilian (2)
civilian_n - Civilian (binary, ref.cat.: Veteran)
krieg_eval_dummy - Krieg mentioned (binary)
krieg_positive_share - Krieg mentioned positively (share)
i_antisem_c - Index Anti-Semitism (count)
i_antibol_c - Index Anti-Leftist (count)
i_ingroup_c - Index fatherland (count)
i_economic_c - Index economic/poverty (count)
i_ww1_c - Index WW1 mentions (count)
i_antisem - Index Anti-Semitism (share)
i_antibol - Index Anti-Leftist (share)
i_ingroup - Index fatherland (share)
i_economic - Index economic/poverty (share)
i_ww1 - Index WW1 mentions (share)
female - Female (binary)
berlin_d - Berlin (binary)
alter - Age
katholisch - Catholic (binary)
edu_abi - Highschool degree (binary)
geburtsjahr2 - Year of birth squared

Variables

Year of birth

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 1895.723404255319; StDev 11.246312643640515; Min. 1860.0; Max. 1916.0; Valid 517.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:wW1pDOGAJ+qp01BppbMirQ==

Combat veteran (0), Non-combat veteran (1), Civilian (2)

f6926559 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency
1.	Non-combat veterans	174
0.	Combat veterans	108
2.	Civilians	277

Summary Statistics: Valid 559.0; StDev 0.773562925624009; Mean 1.3023255813953476; Min. 0.0; Max. 2.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:/zEzPompRdr1zdrvETxlcA==

Civilian (binary, ref.cat.: Veteran)

f6926559 Location:

Value	Label	Frequency	Text
0.	Veteran	283
1.	Civilian	277

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.49464285714285733; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.5004183018954915; Min. 0.0; Valid 560.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:o720PurrMZJ8XFDHxvFVog==

Krieg mentioned (binary)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 579.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.47181213394180355; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.33333333333333204;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:P6KYQdeluivtOODYQZqZlQ==

Krieg mentioned positively (share)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; StDev 0.34895826324738505; Valid 196.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.1929421776107379;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:vUN2ycAnRRy0Bb1UgMPQ1g==

Index Anti-Semitism (count)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 5.0525751194676385; Min. 0.0; Valid 579.0; Max. 28.0; Mean 3.575129533678751

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:+6s35t6Wx5ZQ/fO4tmwe2A==

Index Anti-Leftist (count)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 579.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 4.619712308912419; Mean 3.6822107081174367; Max. 22.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:A+Ubm2eAiPnG0eecz4bzhw==

Index fatherland (count)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; StDev 14.637105451692532; Valid 579.0; Max. 83.0; Mean 14.348877374784173

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:94BXzGf8ELt1ZLAMXat8LA==

Index economic/poverty (count)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 9.675302245250426; Min. 0.0; Valid 579.0; StDev 9.612110010906957; Max. 53.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Y6y6iWeCkKKX6x9VFZ0m1g==

Index WW1 mentions (count)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 6.305699481865268; Min. 0.0; Max. 32.0; Valid 579.0; StDev 6.53350311559087

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Mu7vlzs11iFJ628sXkVWNg==

Index Anti-Semitism (share)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 579.0; Max. 3.9965076446533203; StDev 1.0000000214180012; Mean -1.722303372746527E-8; Min. -0.8907721042633057;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:vD24rEX5/91k07DsFNGzsw==

Index Anti-Leftist (share)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 579.0; StDev 0.999999996920613; Max. 4.5396833419799805; Mean 1.723509461132474E-9; Min. -0.9297766089439392;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Jm4BuEcJBKMpIky2uJz74w==

Index fatherland (share)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 7.722447428868344E-8; Valid 579.0; Min. -1.495068907737732; StDev 0.9999999666176494; Max. 3.3119852542877197

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:UO2eaqMW1oPwiiF3/1lCYQ==

Index economic/poverty (share)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 4.225181579589844; StDev 0.9999999774494504; Mean -1.9840468447207434E-8; Valid 579.0; Min. -1.2738672494888306

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:BC7ETEKK9S2aUtcnzh5GrA==

Index WW1 mentions (share)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 3.7237632274627686; StDev 0.9999999585384809; Mean -4.595693736905442E-9; Valid 579.0; Min. -1.113461971282959;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:3w4PLekfY61myHjdhbQqag==

Female (binary)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.2416840356005478; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.06217616580310877; Valid 579.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:1u0e16KxBDohI3EBpRSGKg==

Berlin (binary)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; Valid 579.0; StDev 0.4660196809884008; Mean 0.317789291882556;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:PldFbVOumqolHatrT7tUsg==

Age

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 579.0; StDev 10.626031137305553; Min. 17.0; Max. 73.0; Mean 37.2765957794453

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:WV/axkf2Gq/Zj9J3n8Woww==

Catholic (binary)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 579.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.048359240069084736; StDev 0.214709674737117

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:2dNlYIxAcU74NikPYLFJ6w==

Highschool degree (binary)

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 579.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.17098445595854925; StDev 0.37682092811930035; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ITr0IgEbkJr48735tRRZaQ==

Year of birth squared

f6926559 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 517.0; Max. 3671056.0; Min. 3459600.0; Mean 3593893.4603481623; StDev 42560.580950429474

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:TE9sFJdtHh3jFw0yzeRsfg==