Socio-political Unemployment

unemployment rate in germany in 2003 states.

high levels of unemployment can causes of civil unrest, in cases leading revolution, , particularly totalitarianism. fall of weimar republic in 1933 , adolf hitler s rise power, culminated in world war ii , deaths of tens of millions , destruction of of physical capital of europe, attributed poor economic conditions in germany @ time, notably high unemployment rate of above 20%; see great depression in central europe details.

note hyperinflation in weimar republic not directly blamed nazi rise—the hyperinflation in weimar republic occurred in period 1921–23, contemporary hitler s beer hall putsch of 1923, , blamed damaging credibility of democratic institutions, nazis did not assume government until 1933, ten years after hyperinflation in midst of high unemployment.

rising unemployment has traditionally been regarded public , media in country key guarantor of electoral defeat government oversees it. consensus in united kingdom until 1983, when margaret thatcher s conservative government won landslide in general election, despite overseeing rise in unemployment 1,500,000 3,200,000 since election 4 years earlier.