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Identifying flip floppers: changing attitudes towards suicide bombing in the Middle East

SYSNO ASEP	0440358
Document Type	V - Research Report
R&D Document Type	V - Research Report
Title	Identifying flip floppers: changing attitudes towards suicide bombing in the Middle East
Author(s)	Malečková, J. (CZ) Kovač, Dejan (NHU-C)
Issue data	Praha: CERGE-EI, 2014
Series	CERGE-EI discussion paper series
Series number	2014 - 229
Number of pages	24 s.
Publication form	Print - P
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	public opinion ; international terrorism ; support of terrorism
Subject RIV	AH - Economics
Institutional support	NHU-C - PRVOUK-P23
Annotation	Existing literature on attitudes towards terrorism is mainly based on a cross sectional analysis of data, providing insights in the differences among countries. This paper examines changes in public opinion on terrorism over time, utilizing the PEW Survey data on at titudes towards suicide bombing in the Middle East (specifically Egypt and Pakistan) from 2004 to 2011. Give n the lack of panel data, it uses the Markov chain methodology to compare changes in the distribution of people who approve of terrorism in order to identify specific demograp hic groups within a country that have a higher probability of switching between approval and disapproval of suicide bombing. Predicting future evolutio n of terror ism approval helps to identify outliers in the data. Year to year country level changes in approval of terrorism are divided into different subgroups to investigate whether the change is on aggregate level for the whole country or whether specific demograp hic groups are triggering the changes. The results of this research can inform policies aimed at reducing the rates of terrorism approval among specific demographic groups.
Workplace	Economics Institute - CERGE
Contact	Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122
Year of Publishing	2015

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