The Unintended Effect of Post-Colonial Negative Contact: Quasi-Experiment from a Soccer Game

• In Event: Quasi-Experiments in Middle East Public Opinion

Brief Overview

I use a quasi-experimental design to look at the effect of France's defeat of Algeria in a soccer game, as an example of a negative post-colonial contact. It affected Arab Algerian men's attitudes toward French people but not France.

Author

• Mohamed Dhia Hammami, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University