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Since the turn of the last century, nationalistic political parties have been gaining support in Europe. Over the same …
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What impact will terrorism have on America's cities? Historically, large-scale violence has impacted cities in three … to disperse. Finally, since warfare and terrorism often specifically target means of transportation, violence can …), but more commonly neither terrorism nor wars have significantly altered urban form. As such, across America the effect of …
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We study the role of perceived threats from cultural diversity induced by terrorist attacks and a salient criminal event on public discourse and voters' support for far-right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine...
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cannot rule out that it constitutes efficient policing given important differences between deterrence of terrorism versus …
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Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...
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This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We …
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This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...
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We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical …
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This paper proposes the use of consumers' preferences in formulating policies for keeping secret information about terrorist activities and threats that might compromise future security. We report the results from two surveys indicating that people have clear preferences for full disclosure of...
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The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the …
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