Arbeitspapier
Highway to Hitler
Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship - the building of the motorway network in Nazi Germany. The Autobahn was one of the most important projects of the Hitler government. It was intended to reduce unemployment, and was widely used for propaganda purposes. We examine its role in increasing support for the NS regime by analyzing new data on motorway construction and the 1934 plebiscite, which gave Hitler great powers as head of state. Our results suggest that road building was highly effective, reducing opposition to the nascent Nazi regime.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 156
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: 1913-
Regional and Urban History: Europe: 1913-
- Thema
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political economy
infrastructure spending
establishment of dictatorships
pork-barrel politics
Nazi regime
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Voigtländer, Nico
Voth, Hans-Joachim
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Zurich, Department of Economics
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Zurich
- (wann)
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2014
- DOI
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doi:10.5167/uzh-96169
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Voigtländer, Nico
- Voth, Hans-Joachim
- University of Zurich, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2014
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