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Suffrage Extension and Redistribution: The Role of National Identity, Interest Group Conflict and Corporativism

In: The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization

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  • Francesco Forte

    (University of Roma, La Sapienza)

  • Elena Seghezza

    (University of Genova)

  • Giovanni B. Pittaluga

    (University of Genova)

Abstract

The redistributivist hypothesis holds that the process of democratization is inevitably accompanied by the adoption by the parliament of redistributive measures. However, if one considers the historical experience of Europe in the decades preceding the First world war, one observes that in the face of an intense process of extension of suffrage there were no redistributive policies. We argue that, thanks to forms of indoctrination carried out by the elite, workers put the interests of the nation before those of their own social class. This hierarchy of preferences was broken by the shock of the First world war. In fact, after it, social groups returned to favouring their class interests. This resulted in heavy macroeconomic imbalances, such as German hyperinflation. After the stabilization of European economies of the early 1920s, the interests of the various groups were brought to a synthesis by ideologies and policies inspired by corporatism.

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  • Francesco Forte & Elena Seghezza & Giovanni B. Pittaluga, 2019. "Suffrage Extension and Redistribution: The Role of National Identity, Interest Group Conflict and Corporativism," The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, in: Jürgen Backhaus & Günther Chaloupek & Hans A. Frambach (ed.), The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization, pages 159-189, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:euhchp:978-3-030-15024-2_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15024-2_12
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