American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
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Activated History: The Case of the Turkish Sieges of Vienna
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 16,
no. 3, July 2024
(pp. 76–112)
(Complimentary)
Abstract
We show that history stored in collective memories and activated by political campaigns can create xenophobia and radicalization. Turkish troops besieged Vienna in 1529 and 1683 and pillaged individual Austrian villages, killing and kidnapping in the process. Attacked places remember those events well but never expressed aversion to Muslims until far-right populists started to campaign against Turks and Muslims in the mid-2000s. We find anti-Muslim sentiments and far-right voting surge in previously attacked places after the populist campaigns were launched, and Turkish communities decrease in response. Historical narratives in political campaigns can mobilize both beliefs and actions.Citation
Ochsner, Christian, and Felix Roesel. 2024. "Activated History: The Case of the Turkish Sieges of Vienna." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16 (3): 76–112. DOI: 10.1257/app.20190686Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- N43 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: Pre-1913
- Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
- Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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