The Red Zone: Forced Displacement and Support for Anti-Refugee Parties

• In Event: Support For and Opposition to Populist Parties

Brief Overview

Using a spatial RDD, we find that vote shares for the German AfD are significantly higher in villages where residents were forcefully displaced at the start of WW2 than AfD vote shares in adjancent villages that did not experience displacement.

Authors

• Elias Dinas, University of Oxford

• Florian Foos, King's College London

• Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University