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How Elites Destabilize Democracies: Evidence from 19th Century Europe

Fri, September 11, 8:00 to 9:30am MDT (8:00 to 9:30am MDT), TBA

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

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This panel studies 19th century Europe and shows how elites destabilized young, aspiring democracies. We study how elites i) captured and subverted local political associations in France; ii) built a bureaucracy to advance their economic interests in Prussia; iii) appealed to group identity - rather than simple economics - to further their political agenda in Austria-Hungary; and iv) propagated beliefs about social stratification in order to prevent their expropriation in the Weimar Republic.

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