Do pandemics spawn extremism? Spanish flu deaths and the Ku Klux Klan.
Politics Life Sci
; 41(2): 289-297, 2023 03.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2254214
ABSTRACT
Scholars and journalists connect pandemics to a rise in support for radical political movements. In this study, we draw on this insight to investigate the relationship between the 1918-1919 Spanish influenza pandemic and political extremism-here, the rise of the second Ku Klux Klan-in the United States. Specifically, we ask whether U.S. states and cities with higher death rates from the Spanish flu also had stronger Ku Klux Klan organizations in the early 1920s. Our results do not provide evidence of such a connection; in fact, the data suggest greater Klan membership where the pandemic was less severe. This provides initial evidence that pandemic severity, as measured by mortality, is not necessarily a cause of extremism in the United States; power devaluation as a result of social and cultural change, however, does appear to spur such mobilization.
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Bases de datos internacionales
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Evolución Cultural
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Gripe Humana
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Influenza Pandémica, 1918-1919
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio observacional
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Estudio pronóstico
Límite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Politics Life Sci
Asunto de la revista:
Ciencia
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Etica
Año:
2023
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