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Learning from the Past: How History Education Shapes Support for Extreme Ideology

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  • Braghieri, Luca
  • Eichmeyer, Sarah

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Can teaching the history of authoritarian regimes built on extreme ideology lastingly reduce support for those ideologies? We leverage a natural experiment in Germany where the senior high school history curriculum exogenously alternated covering, across cohorts, the communist German Democratic Republic and fascist Nazi Germany. Data collected a decade post-graduation reveals that studying the GDR rather than the Nazi regime increases knowledge about the GDR and reduces support for extreme left-wing ideology. The treatment does not increase support for extreme right-wing ideology on average, but does so in more right-leaning regions, highlighting substitutabilities of the production function of extreme ideology.

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  • Braghieri, Luca & Eichmeyer, Sarah, 2024. "Learning from the Past: How History Education Shapes Support for Extreme Ideology," CEPR Discussion Papers 19575, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:19575
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    • P00 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - General - - - General
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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