Terrorism, trust, and identity: evidence from a natural experiment in Nigeria

We study the effects of terrorism on political trust and national versus ethnic identification. Making use of unexpected attacks by the extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, which occurred during the fieldwork of a public opinion survey in 2014, we show that even in a context of weak state institut...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Harding, R, Nwokolo, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023