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Title	Replication Data for: Relative Poverty, Perceived Violence, and Support for Militant Politics: Evidence from Pakistan

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9IYGIX

Creator	Fair, C. Christine Littman, Rebecca Malhotra, Neil Shapiro, Jacob N.

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	Challenging conventional wisdom, previous research in South Asia and the Middle East has shown that poverty and exposure to violence are negatively correlated with support for militant organizations. Existing studies provide evidence consistent with two potential mechanisms underlying these relationships: (1) the direct effects of poverty and violence on attitudes toward militant groups; and (2) the psychological effects of perceptions of poverty and violence on attitudes. Isolating the psychological mechanism is important for building theories of mass responses to political violence. We conducted a series of original, large-scale survey experiments in Pakistan (n = 16,279) in which we randomly manipulated perceptions of both poverty and violence before measuring support for militant organizations. We find evidence that psychological perceptions do in part explain why the poor seem to be less supportive of militant political groups.

Subject	Social Sciences poverty violence Pakistan

Contributor	Littman, Rebecca

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