Association Membership, Ethnocentrism and Individualism in Longitudinal Perspective: Evidence from 9/11
Year: 2013
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Research linking civic engagement to citizens’ values and norms concentrates on the direction and causal nature of this relation. It often ignores that the engagement-values relation may be context-specific, and might differ over time (and space). Theoretically, we build on an historical-institutionalist approach to argue that the engagement-values relation may not exist. Empirically, we take an explicitly longitudinal perspective to assess the ensuing prediction that exogenous shocks (such as the 9/11 attacks analysed here) may affect its strength and direction. Our findings, using a unique dataset consisting of six waves of a survey conducted in Flanders between 2001 and 2008, confirm this hypothesis.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Authors: Benny Geys, Zuzana Murdoch
Institutions: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BI Norwegian Business School
Language: English
Topic: Social Capital and Networks
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1566859083