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The paper examines support for terrorism in public opinion and the relationship with terrorist attacks. We link the … justification in public opinion for suicide terrorism increases terror attacks on people in countries that are unfavorably regarded … suicide bombings and has an unfavorable opinion of another country, and terrorism originating from the former country. …
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Nine OECD countries presently have national terrorism insurance programs based on some type of public–private risk …, little is known about the effect of such governmental intervention on terrorism insurance markets. This paper focuses on the … United States, where the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) provides insurers with no cost federal reinsurance up to …
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Prior research has concluded that socio-economic development does not significantly affect terrorism. We take an … alternative view. First, we note that a country's socio-economic circumstances affect terrorists' behavior through terrorism …'s opportunity costs. We argue that this reasoning also holds for the case of supreme value terrorism. Then, we run a series of …
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This paper presents a theory of endogenous economic institutions in non-democracies, where political accountability is enforced through the threat of revolution. We consider a dynamic game between an elite ruling class and a disenfranchised working class, in which workers have imperfect...
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Previous empirical studies have found that the institutions and policies of democracies are generally more supportive of economic freedom than authoritarian political regimes. This paper employs a new dataset by Cheibub et al. (2010) to examine the impact of transitions to democracy on economic...
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The purpose of this paper is to empirically determine the effects of political instability on economic growth. By using the system-GMM estimator for linear dynamic panel data models on a sample covering up to 169 countries, and 5-year periods from 1960 to 2004, we find that higher degrees of...
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This paper investigates the impact of patronage and ideology on voter behavior and election outcomes. Egypt's first free presidential elections represent a good case study to answer the question whether private gain outweighs ideology in voter behavior on a broader level. First, we combine...
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Despite the upheaval associated with warfare, empirical evidence linking conflict with institutional development is limited. This paper examines the hypothesis that international wars accelerated democratization by fostering political inclusion. Employing survival analysis, I find that during...
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Despite extensive empirical research, there is little agreement on how and why political regimes affect social and economic development. This paper expands on this literature by examining how political regimes affect health policies relating to the treatment of HIV/AIDS. The paper examines...
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We test for the influence of absolute and relative deprivation — proxied by anthropometric methods — on civil war risk. A comprehensive height data set allows us to go back to 1816 for a global sample. We measure absolute deprivation using human stature and we use height inequality within...
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