Bromhead, Alan de; Eichengreen, Barry; Kevin H.O’Rourke - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2012
We examine the impact of the Great Depression on the share of votes for right- wing anti-system parties in elections in the 1920s and 1930s.We confirm the existence of a link between political extremism and economic hard times as captured by growth or contraction of the economy.What mattered was...