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Ideas and Combat Motivation: Propaganda and German Soldiers' Performance in World War II

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dc.contributor.authorBarber, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Charles
dc.contributor.rorhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-09T17:08:45Z
dc.date.available2025-01-09T17:08:45Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-09
dc.description.abstractWhat explains combat motivation in warfare? Scholars argue that monitoring, material rewards, and punishment alone are insufficient explanations. Further, competing ideological accounts of motivation are also problematic because ideas are difficult to operationalize and measure. To solve this puzzle, the authors combine extensive information from World War II about German soldiers’ combat performance with data about conditionally exogenous potential exposure to Nazi radio propaganda. They find evidence that soldiers with higher potential exposure to propaganda were more likely to be decorated for valor even after controlling for individual socioeconomic factors, home district characteristics like urbanization, and proxies for combat exposure.
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dc.identifier.citationBarber IV, B., & Miller, C. (2019). Propaganda and combat motivation: Radio broadcasts and German soldiers’ performance in World War II. World Politics, 71(3), 457-502. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887118000345
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887118000345
dc.identifier.issn1086-3338
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3430
dc.issue.number3
dc.journal.titleWorld Politics
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.departmentStrategy
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
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dc.subject.keywordAuthoritarianism
dc.subject.keywordCollective action
dc.subject.keywordIdeology
dc.subject.keywordMilitary effectiveness
dc.titleIdeas and Combat Motivation: Propaganda and German Soldiers' Performance in World War II
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dc.volume.number71
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