Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany

• In Event: Legacies and Policy

Brief Overview

We provide a theory of how the Black Death led to socioeconomic and political transformations. In our empirical analysis, we show how local variation in exposure to the Black Death in German-speaking Central Europe affected politics in the long run.

Authors

• Daniel Willard Gingerich, University of Virginia-Main Campus

• Jan P. Vogler, University of Virginia