Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Social Cohesion and Public Goods
- 3 Cooperation in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Polish Villages
- 4 Cooperation in West German Communities
- Part III State Building in the Wake of Displacement
- Part IV Long-Run Economic Consequences of Uprooting
- Appendix A Additional Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Appendix B Sources for Archival and Statistical Data
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
4 - Cooperation in West German Communities
from Part II - Social Cohesion and Public Goods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Social Cohesion and Public Goods
- 3 Cooperation in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Polish Villages
- 4 Cooperation in West German Communities
- Part III State Building in the Wake of Displacement
- Part IV Long-Run Economic Consequences of Uprooting
- Appendix A Additional Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Appendix B Sources for Archival and Statistical Data
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Summary
This chapter examines the reception of expellees in West Germany. I show that expellees were perceived as foreigners, despite sharing ethnicity and language with the locals. I then document expellees’ exclusion from local voluntary associations and the formation of new associations based on migration status and region of origin. I conclude by analyzing contributions to public goods provision in Bavarian municipalities. I show that the more expellees a given community received, the lower the rates at which it taxed the locals’ property and business.
Keywords
cooperationpublic goodsintergroup conflictcleavagesvolunteer fire brigadesWest Germanyexpelleestaxationethnificationboundary-makingWest GermanyBavariaexpellee identityeconomic inequalityeconomic competitiondiscriminationvoluntary associationsHomeland Associationsexpellee organizationmunicipal councils
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- UprootedHow post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe, pp. 89 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024