| Germany1933vote {LSTbook} | R Documentation |
Voting patterns in the 1933 German national election
Description
1933 was the year that Hitler and the Nazi party came to power. The initial basis for this was a national election in which the Nazis secured a substantial fraction of the vote. (Immediately after the election, the Nazis burned the Reichtag (the German parliament) and started repressing their political opposition though a campaign of imprisonment and murder.)
Usage
data("Germany1933vote")
Format
A data frame with 681 rows and 7 variables. Each row is a German precinct.
self: share of potential voters who are self-employed
blue: share of potential voters who are blue-collar workers
white: share of potential voters who are white-collar workers
domestic: share of potential voters who are employed domestically
unemployed: share of potential voters who are un-employed
nvoter: number of eligible voters (not clear if this include people who didn't vote)
nazivote: number of votes for the Nazis
References
Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL from whence these data were added to this package. In QSS, the data are called
nazis.G. King, O. Rosen, M. Tanner, A.F. Wagner (2008) “Ordinary economic voting behavior in the extraordinary election of Adolf Hitler.” Journal of Economic History, vol. 68, pp. 951–996.#'