Research in Globalization (Dec 2022)
Justification of terrorism according to World Values Survey (2017–2020)
Abstract
In this article we present the factors (pull, push and personal) that allow people to justify terrorism. We build a model that allows us to predict on a global scale, which factors best discriminate between the people who justify – or do not justify – terrorism. Based on data from the seventh wave of the World Values Survey (2017–2020) we compare those who do not justify terrorism with those who justify terrorism (23.7% of those interviewed, N = 69578). The importance of attitudes about democracy turns out to be the variable that predicts cognitive radicalization best.