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Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance
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Abstract A wealth of recent research in comparative politics examines how spatial variation in historical
conditions shapes modern political outcomes. In an article in the American Political Science
Review, Homola, Pereira, and Tavits argue that Germans who live nearer to former Nazi
concentration camps a... view more
A wealth of recent research in comparative politics examines how spatial variation in historical
conditions shapes modern political outcomes. In an article in the American Political Science
Review, Homola, Pereira, and Tavits argue that Germans who live nearer to former Nazi
concentration camps are more likely to display out-group intolerance. Clarifying the conceptual foundations of posttreatment bias and reviewing the historical record on postwar state creation in Germany, we argue that state-level differences confound the relationship between distance to camps and out-group intolerance. Using publicly available European Values Survey data and electoral results from 2017, we find no consistent evidence that distance to camps is related to contemporary values. Our findings have implications for literatures on historical persistence, causal inference with spatial data, Holocaust studies, and outgroup tolerance.... view less
Keywords
Third Reich; concentration camp; discrimination; coming to terms with the past; historical development; Federal Republic of Germany; historical consciousness; Nazism; regional difference; EVS
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Social Psychology
Free Keywords
Intoleranz; Out-Group; Rechtsextremismus; Holocaust; European Values Study 2017: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2017) (ZA7500)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 519-528
Journal
American Political Science Review, 118 (2023) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423000072
ISSN
0003-0554
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed