Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring

Naturally, they formed perceptions about government, public institutions, and political life through the pre-AS and post-AS periods.14 Several studies underline the role of socio- economic elements and the significance of cultural and ideological factors in defining and formulating the perceptions of individuals about various political and social events and issues. [...] The following binary variables of self-identity perceptions are included in the empirical model: Global when the respondent claims to culturally belong to the global/international community), Arab when the respondent claims to culturally belong to the Arab world, and Islamic when the respondent claims to culturally belong to the Islamic Ummah (i.e., Islamic community). [...] Finally, the ordinal variable Ambitious with four discrete ordinal categories (0, 1, 2, and 3) characterizes the respondents’ aspirations in terms of the importance of being innovative and prosperous in the society, and it could coarsely overlap with the entrepreneurial tendencies of the respondents. [...] For example, in the cases of the unconditional marginal effects for PI=3, FA=3, and CC=3, the results suggest that the perceptions of the farthest secularist individuals compared to those of the least secularist individuals are more favourable by 4.0, 5.1, and 4.8 percentage points in the pre-AS period, which increase to 7.8, 10.6, and 12.0 percentage points in the post-AS period, respectively, ce. [...] It lays out the research objective based on initial evidence that highlights the role of socio-economic elements and the significance of cultural and ideological factors in defining and formulating the perceptions of individuals about various political and social events and issues.