The Price We Paid: Democratic Transitions, Violence and the Resilience of Anti-Autocratic Attitudes

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Brief Overview

We use locality level casualty data from the Romanian revolution of 1989 and contemporary survey data to causally identify the effect of violence on contemporary political attitudes.

Authors

• Roman-Gabriel Olar, Dublin City University

• Aurelian Plopeanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

• Vlad Surdea-Hernea, Central European University