Can bombs and broadcasts instigate resistance against a foreign regime? In this paper, we examine the canonical case of bombing designed to undermine enemy morale-the Allied bomber offensive against Germany during World War II. Our evidence shows that air power and the airwaves indeed undermined...

This elite survey has been carried out as part of the data collection effort of the WZB bridging project "The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism". Elites from five countries that were selected to represent five world regions (Germany, Poland, Turkey, Mexico and USA)...

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...