Bakke, Kristin M;
Rickard, Kit;
O'Loughlin, John;
Toal, Gerard;
(2024)
Politicizing Memory: Evidence from Ukraine.
Problems of Post-Communism
10.1080/10758216.2024.2316037.
(In press).
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Abstract
Research shows that people’s perceptions of historical violence shape many present-day outcomes. Yet it is also plausible that people emphasize or downplay certain events of the past based on how these resonate with their beliefs and identities today. With a population of diverse orientations involving Russia and Europe, Ukraine in 2019 was an important case for exploring how people’s present geopolitical orientations shaped perceptions of victimization in World War II. Drawing on a survey experiment, we find evidence for “motivated reasoning” among Western-oriented respondents, who emphasized their family’s suffering in World War II when faced with information that attributed blame to the Soviet regime. We find no evidence for motivated reasoning among the Russian-oriented respondents.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Politicizing Memory: Evidence from Ukraine |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10758216.2024.2316037 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2024.2316037 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196341 |
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