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The Effect of Migration on Terror - Made at Home or Imported from Abroad?
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Schaudt, Paul - 2017
We investigate whether the stock of foreigners residing in a country leads to a larger number of terrorist attacks on that country. Our instrument for the stock of foreigners relies on the interaction of two sets of variables. Variation across host-origin-dyads results from structural...
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Terrorism and Misperceptions : Evidence from Europe
Arin, K. Peren; Khalil, Umair; Mazrekaj, Deni; Thum, … - 2023
How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348045
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Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis
Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017
380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade …
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Dismantling the "Jungle": Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France
Vertier, Paul; Viskanic, Max - 2018
Calais “Jungle” to temporary migrant-centers (CAOs) in France affected the results of the 2017 presidential election. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815820
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Paying Them to Hate Us : The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2014
Dimant, Eugen - 2020
provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism. We find that higher levels of military … aid led to an increased likelihood of the recipient country to produce anti-American terrorism. For our preferred … instrumental-variable specification, doubling U.S. military aid increases the risk of anti-American terrorism by 4.4 percentage …
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Armed Groups in Conflict : Competition and Political Violence in Pakistan
Gassebner, Martin - 2020
This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830355
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Religiosity and Terrorism : Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Hodler, Roland - 2019
This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892037
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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany
Deole, Sumit S. - 2018
In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908664
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Fifty Years of Peril : A Comprehensive Comparison of the Impact of Terrorism and Disasters Linked to Natural Hazards (1970-2019)
Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022
We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two … impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger realised impact in all regions in both gross and per-capita terms. The largest … cross-peril difference was in Asia, where natural hazard disasters took 324 million Lifeyears, while terrorism took ten …
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Class Warfare : Political Exclusion of the Poor and the Roots of Social-Revolutionary Terrorism, 1860-1950
Klotzbuecher, Valentin; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2021
We examine the effect of class cleavages on terrorist activity by anarchist and leftist terrorist groups in 99 American, Asian and European countries over the 1860-1950 period. We find that higher levels of political exclusion of the poor, our main measure of class conflict, were associated with...
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