Citation

Kursani S, Krakowski K. Terrorism Polit. Violence 2023; 35(6): 1299-1316.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/09546553.2022.2038576

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

What are society's views on the drivers of religious extremism and other types of political violence? We address this question by conducting a large-N vignette experiment in Kosovo. We expose a random sample of the population to hypothetical situations that describe other people's engagement in religious extremism, ethnic riots, and violent protest. We find that frustrated aspirations of vignette characters--signaled as a mismatch between the characters' education and their labor market outcomes--are associated with increased expectations of engagement in all types of political violence. This result holds for Muslim Albanians and Christian Serbs.

Language: en

Keywords

frustrated aspirations; religious extremism; riots; terrorism; Violence