War and social attitudes

Travers Barclay Child and Elena Nikolova
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Travers Barclay Child: China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, China
Elena Nikolova: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, UK, Central European Labor Studies Institute, Slovakia and Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2020, vol. 37, issue 2, 152-171

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 Those findings are reversed, however, when tested instead with an objective measure of victimization based on historical reference material.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.

Keywords: Conflict; social attitudes; World War II (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 N44 P20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894217750564

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