Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197677 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2016:16
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
The emergence of anti-democratic movements is a central puzzle to social science. We study a novel and rich dataset covering Swedish municipalities during the interwar years and find a strong link between the presence of a military garrison and the emergence of fascist parties. We interpret these results as suggesting that fascist mobilization in Sweden was driven by discontent with the process of disarmament brought about by democratization. By contrast, economic hard times, as captured by local poverty and the size of the tax base, seem to have little connection with such parties. We relate these results to influential theories of democratization.
Subjects: 
Democracy
Interwar fascism
Disarmament
JEL: 
N44
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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