Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Social Cohesion and Public Goods
- Part III State Building in the Wake of Displacement
- 5 State Building in the Polish Wild West
- 6 Expellees and the State in West Germany
- 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
5 - State Building in the Polish Wild West
from Part III - State Building in the Wake of Displacement
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
- Part III State Building in the Wake of Displacement
- 5 State Building in the Polish Wild West
- 6 Expellees and the State in West Germany
- 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
The chapter examines the process of state building in the territory transferred from Germany to Poland in 1945, showing that mass uprooting shored up the demand for state-provided resources and weakened resistance to governance. It exploits the placement of the interwar border between Poland and Germany to estimate the effects of postwar population transfers on the size of the state. It then examines the political legacies of population transfers in post-1989 Poland.
Keywords
state capacitystate-buildingstate administrationnationalizationcollectivizationcooperativespolicingelitesWWIIimperial partitionsPrussian partitionVersailles TreatyPolish bordersNazi occupationSoviet occupationCommunist Partycommunismstate socialismresettlementstate weaknessresistanceCatholic churchcommunist successor partyvotingfrontiergeographic regression discontinuity designland ownershipredistribution of land
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- UprootedHow post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe, pp. 111 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024