The Past is Present: Underestimating Fear of Contemporary Reprisals in the Legacy of Political Violence.

Recent scholarship on the legacy of political violence has revealed two findings that deviate from the literature, a positive correlation between political engagement and the experience of violence and no correlation between religiosity and the experience of violence among Crimean Tatars after the 2014 Russian annexation. In this replication using the original dataset, we show that their findings were based on a coding error, unwise use of factor analysis and insufficient attention to missing values. After correcting the acknowledged coding errors, political violence negatively correlates with political engagement. But we move on to argue that a diverse pattern of missing data suggests that Crimean Tatars may have found some questions politically sensitive after the 2014 annexation, which may underestimate the effect of the experience of violence on religiosity. We conclude by integrating the new findings into the literature on the legacy of political violence and by reiterating the importance of replication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]