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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2023
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