de Bromhead, Alan; Eichengreen, Barry; O'Rourke, Kevin H. - In: The Journal of Economic History 73 (2013) 02, pp. 371-406
We examine the impact of the Great Depression on the share of votes for right-wing extremists 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 not...