Work-in-Progress

Conflict Legacies, Citizenship Status, and Claim-Making: A Natural Experiment in East Jerusalem

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Jan
22
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Date
Thursday, January 22, 2026
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4:00pm - 5:30pm US Eastern Time
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Work-in-Progress
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Hannah Early Bagdanov
Kellogg Dissertation Year Fellow

How do conflict legacies and citizenship status affect engagement with local institutions? In Israel's War of Independence/al-Nakba of 1948, the Beit Safafa neighborhood of East Jerusalem was divided in two by the armistice Green Line, which was drawn along the tracks of the Jerusalem to Jaffa railway. Upon the erection of the Green Line, Palestinians residing in Israeli-held territory of the Beit Safafa neighborhood were granted citizenship in the newly created State of Israel, while those residing in Jordanian-held Beit Safafa were granted a limited form of Jordanian citizenship. Drawing upon original survey data from 2023 of residents of the Beit Safafa neighborhood, in this paper I test the effect of citizenship status on engagement with local institutions. This natural experiment presents the unique opportunity to causally identify the impact of citizenship status on engagement with the state, and increases our understanding of the role of conflict legacies in shaping contemporary civilian political behavior.


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Hannah Early Bagdanov

Hannah Early Bagdanov is a PhD candidate in Political Science and a Dissertation Year Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Her research and teaching focus broadly on conflict, political behavior, state and non-state governance in the Middle East and North Africa...
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