After the Uprising: the Intifada-Oslo Generation and Attitudes Toward the Palestinian Police

Does experiencing a mass uprising during one’s formative years shape attitudes toward post-uprising institutions? Existing research on cohorts has not examined settings of ongoing statelessness. We focus on Palestinians who witnessed the First Intifada and subsequent Israeli-Palestinian negotiations during their youth-to-
adulthood transition. Analyzing a pooled sample of surveys conducted between 1996 and 2000, we observe that men from this cohort – using a youth-based definition
of one’s formative years – evaluated the Palestinian police more negatively than did other men, ceteris paribus. We test two, potential explanations. We find support for
the proposition that men from this cohort held distinctive views about coercion and resistance that shaped their evaluations. We conclude that experiencing mass
mobilization and transition during one’s formative years can influence attitudes, but additional work is needed to test for their long-term endurance. Further, a younger
operationalization of one’s impressionable years may be salient in settings of insecurity.

在个体形成期经历大规模起义是否会塑造对其后起义制度的态度？现有关于代际群体研究尚未探讨持续无国籍状态的环境。本研究聚焦于在青少年至成年过渡期见证了第一次起义及随后以巴谈判的巴勒斯坦人。通过对1996年至2000年间进行的调查样本的整合分析，我们发现，这一群体的男性——以青少年期为个体形成年的定义——对巴勒斯坦警察的评价相较于其他男性更为负面。我们检验了两种可能的解释。我们发现，这一群体对强制与抵抗持有独特观点，这些观点塑造了他们的评价。我们得出结论，个体形成期经历大规模动员与转型能够影响态度，但需要进一步研究以验证其长期影响。此外，在不确定性环境中，对个体敏感期的年轻化定义可能具有重要意义。