Child, TB;
Nikolova, E;
(2017)
War and Social Attitudes.
(UCL Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies Working Papers
2017/5).
UCL Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (CCSEE): London, UK.
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Abstract
We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier work has relied on self- reported measures of victimization, which are prone to endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate established findings linking victimization to political participation, civic engagement, optimism, and trust. Those findings are reversed, however, when tested instead with an objective measure of victimization based on historical reference material. Thus, we urge caution when interpreting survey- based results from this literature as causal.
Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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Title: | War and Social Attitudes |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.2817856 |
Publisher version: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/comparative-studies-em... |
Language: | English |
Keywords: | conflict, social attitudes, World War II |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10024757 |
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