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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter

Giavazzi, Francesco - 2020

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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Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2008

The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia requires reforming the institutions for domestic counterterrorism (CT) and new international relations among individual national CT organizations. This paper discusses the...

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Extremism and Social Learning

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007

) statements that are designed to manipulate. Credulous Bayesianism can produce extremism and significant blunders. We discuss the …

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Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and The Productivity of Suicide Bombers

Benmelech, Efraim - 2007

This paper studies the relation between human capital of suicide bombers and outcomes of their suicide attacks. We argue that human capital is an important factor in the production of terrorism, and that if terrorists behave rationally we should observe that more able suicide bombers are...

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Strategic Extremism : Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values

Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shapiro, … - In: The quarterly journal of economics (2004)

marriage. Religious extremism in the U.S. appears to be strategically targeted to win elections, since party platforms diverge … from attracting the median voter, why do vote-maximizing politicians veer off into extremism? In this paper, we find that … strategic extremism depends on an important intensive margin where politicians want to induce their core constituents to vote …

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Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground : An Economist's View of Radical Religious Militias

Berman, Eli - 2003

Can rational choice modeling explain destructive behavior among the Taliban, Hama and other radical religious militias? This paper proposes a club good framework which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local public goods in the absence of...

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Overconfidence in Political Behavior

Ortoleva, Pietro - 2013

This paper studies, theoretically and empirically, the role of overconfidence in political behavior. Our model of overconfidence in beliefs predicts that overconfidence leads to ideological extremeness, increased voter turnout, and increased strength of partisan identification. Moreover, the...

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Political Economy in a Changing World

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with (anticipated and unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power...

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Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression

de Bromhead, Alan - 2012

the 1920s and 1930s. We confirm the existence of a link between political extremism and economic hard times as captured by …

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McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression : Evidence from Hollywood

Tan, Hui Ren; Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study a far-reaching episode of demagoguery in American history. From the late 1940s to 1950s, anti-communist hysteria led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others gripped the nation. Hundreds of professionals in Hollywood were accused of having ties with the communist. We show that these...

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