de Bromhead, Alan; Eichengreen, Barry; O'Rourke, Kevin … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...