Stephanie Dornschneider is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, as well as an MA in International Relations and a Diploma in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo.

• Chapter 1: An Extraordinary Experience Chapter 2: Similar States, Opposite Outcomes: Egypt and Morocco Chapter 3: Identifying Beliefs and Inferences Chapter 4: Tracing Reasoning Processes Chapter 5: Hot Contention, Cool Abstention Chapter 6: Conclusions Bibliography Appendices Appendix 1: The sample Appendix 2: Beliefs identified by the qualitative analysis Appendix 3: z-scores Appendix 4: Minimum sets of beliefs

Stephanie Dornschneider is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, as well as an MA in International Relations and a Diploma in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo.

• Chapter 1: An Extraordinary Experience Chapter 2: Similar States, Opposite Outcomes: Egypt and Morocco Chapter 3: Identifying Beliefs and Inferences Chapter 4: Tracing Reasoning Processes Chapter 5: Hot Contention, Cool Abstention Chapter 6: Conclusions Bibliography Appendices Appendix 1: The sample Appendix 2: Beliefs identified by the qualitative analysis Appendix 3: z-scores Appendix 4: Minimum sets of beliefs

Stephanie Dornschneider is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, as well as an MA in International Relations and a Diploma in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo.

• Chapter 1: An Extraordinary Experience Chapter 2: Similar States, Opposite Outcomes: Egypt and Morocco Chapter 3: Identifying Beliefs and Inferences Chapter 4: Tracing Reasoning Processes Chapter 5: Hot Contention, Cool Abstention Chapter 6: Conclusions Bibliography Appendices Appendix 1: The sample Appendix 2: Beliefs identified by the qualitative analysis Appendix 3: z-scores Appendix 4: Minimum sets of beliefs