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俾斯麦的福利国家与社会主义者
Bismarck’s Welfare State and the Socialists
摘要
This paper examines the political consequences of introducing the welfare state targeted at blue-collar workers in nineteenth-century Germany. I conceptualize Bismarck’s reform as an accommodation strategy to combat the Socialist Party as an emerging challenger party. The result of a difference-in-differences design shows that the Socialist Party benefited in elections due to the reform. The mechanism analysis points to the socialists’ issue ownership by adopting a stronger reformist stance. The results are not driven by other political and economic channels related to the reform.
中文摘要
本文考察了19世纪德国针对蓝领工人引入福利国家的政治后果。我将俾斯麦的改革概念化为一种旨在打击作为新兴挑战者政党的社会党的安抚策略。双重差分设计的结果表明，社会党因该改革而在选举中获益。机制分析指向社会党人通过采取更强的改良主义立场而实现的问题所有权。该结果并非由与该改革相关的其他政治和经济渠道所驱动。