Aggregating voting data from a thousand districts and a hundred cities for four elections between 1930 and 1933. It is associated with a research paper studying the link between fiscal austerity and Nazi electoral success, finding that areas more affected by austerity had higher Nazi vote shares.
Use Cases
- Analyze the correlation between fiscal austerity measures and Nazi Party vote share across districts and cities.
- Investigate the relationship between local mortality rates and electoral outcomes for the Nazi Party.
- Replicate the instrumental variable and border-pair policy discontinuity designs used in the associated research paper.
- Study the variation in Nazi electoral success across a thousand districts and a hundred cities over four elections.
Strengths
- Data covers a thousand districts and a hundred cities, providing a broad geographic scope.
- Includes four elections between 1930 and 1933, offering a multi-year temporal perspective.
- Associated with a peer-reviewed research paper employing robust econometric specifications.
Limitations
- The specific columns and data structure are unknown, limiting immediate analytical utility.
- The dataset's size, file formats, and completeness are unspecified.
- Data is historical and may not be directly comparable to modern electoral or economic datasets.
Provenance
- Source
- Gregori Galofré-Vilà, ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Archival voting data associated with a specific research publication.
- Time Range
- 1930 to 1933
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Germany (a thousand districts and a hundred cities)