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6 - Expellees and the State in West Germany

from Part III - State Building in the Wake of Displacement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2024

Volha Charnysh
Volha Charnysh
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The chapter examines the role of forced displacement in increasing the demand for state intervention and expanding the size of the state bureaucracy in West Germany. It discusses the government elites’ strategies for dealing with the needs of expellees and receiving communities and reviews expellees’ ability to influence government policy. Statistical analysis is used to demonstrate that counties with a greater proportion of expellees to population had more civil servants per capita.

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expelleesenfranchisementSocial DemocratsnationalizationdemocratizationAmerican military governmentoccupied Germanyland reformexpellee radicalizationnativist partiesfederal electionsstate buildingstate capacitystate administrationRedistribution of Burdens Lawtaxationsocial welfarelocal governmentstate governmentfederal governmentunemploymenteconomic inequalityprotestexpellee organizationssocial market economyChristian Democratspolitical partieseconomic elites
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How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe
 , pp. 142 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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