Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Felix Kersting, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Iris Wohnsiedler, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Nikolaus Wolf, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Kersting, Felix, Wohnsiedler, Iris, and Wolf, Nikolaus. Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-05-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119604V1

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This is the replication package for the article "Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism".

Abstract:
We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late 19th century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an "ascetic compulsion to save". Moreover, we find that income levels, savings, and literacy rates differed between Germans and Poles, not between Protestants and Catholics, using pooled OLS and IV regressions. We suggest that this result is due to anti-Polish discrimination.

Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources German Science Foundation CRC (190)

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Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Weber; nationalism; Protestantism; prussia
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Poland, Germany
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1871 – 1914
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; aggregate data; census/enumeration data; geographic information system (GIS) data

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