Leadership in Social Movements: Evidence from the Forty-Eighters in the Civil War
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Dippel, Christian; Heblich, Stephan
署名单位：
University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Toronto; University of Toronto; IZA Institute Labor Economics
刊物名称：
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0002-8282
DOI：
10.1257/aer.20191137
发表日期：
2021
页码：
472-505
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摘要：
This paper studies the role of leaders in the social movement against slavery that culminated in the US Civil War Our analysis is organized around a natural experiment: leaders of the failed German revolution of 1848-1849 were expelled to the United States and became antislavery campaigners who helped mobilize Union Army volunteers. Towns where Forty-Eighters settled show two-thirds higher Union Army enlistments. Their influence worked through local newspapers and social clubs. Going beyond enlistment decisions, Forty-Eighters reduced their companies' desertion rate during the war In the long run, Forty-Eighter towns were more likely to form a local chapter of the NAACP.