German Voting and Historical Linguistic Survey Data for Radical Right Support Analysis

More than 725,000 geo-coded responses from a linguistic survey in Germany form the basis of this dataset. It was created by Daniel Ziblatt of Harvard University Press to investigate the link between historical linguistic peripheries and contemporary radical right voting. The data is associated with the paper 'Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany'.

Use Cases

• Modeling radical right voting likelihood based on historical linguistic periphery status.
• Geospatial analysis of voting patterns and historical dialect regions in Germany.
• Investigating long-term state-building effects on contemporary political behavior.

Strengths

• Dataset is derived from a substantial survey of over 725,000 geo-coded responses.
• Data is explicitly linked to a peer-reviewed academic paper and theory.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the final analytical dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Harvard University Press

Collection Method

Geo-coded responses from a linguistic survey.

Geography

Germany