TY - JOUR
T1 - War and social attitudes
AU - Child, Travers Barclay
AU - Nikolova, Elena
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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 Those findings are reversed, however, when tested instead with an objective measure of victimization based on historical reference material.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.
AB - 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 Those findings are reversed, however, when tested instead with an objective measure of victimization based on historical reference material.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.
KW - Conflict
KW - World War II
KW - social attitudes
KW - Conflict
KW - World War II
KW - social attitudes
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U2 - 10.1177/0738894217750564
DO - 10.1177/0738894217750564
M3 - Journal
SN - 0738-8942
VL - 37
SP - 152
EP - 171
JO - Conflict Management and Peace Science
JF - Conflict Management and Peace Science
IS - 2
ER -