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theoretical model generates two precise empirical predictions about the interaction between terrorism and electoral outcomes …. First, the relative support for the right-wing party is expected to increase after periods with high levels of terrorism and … to decrease after periods of relative calm. Second, the expected level of terrorism is higher when the left-wing party is …
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model. The authors close by discussing the utility of this model for understanding terrorism and the behavior of terrorist …
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The authors examine the effect of educational attainment and income on support for suicide bombing among Muslim publics in six predominantly Muslim countries that have experienced suicide bombings: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, and Turkey. The authors make two contributions....
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The authors model a terrorist organization’s choice over the scale and planning horizon of terror attacks and the consequences for the organization’s evolution. The organization can engage in short-term attacks planned and executed in a single period, characterized by a low fixed...
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This article presents a theoretical framework and some empirical results showing that the level of foreign aid received reduces the supply of terrorist attacks from recipient countries, while U.S. military interventions are liable to increase this supply. Due account is taken of endogeneity...
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Political actors sometimes make public commitments not to negotiate with adversaries whom they label as being beneath diplomacy. Such commitments are sometimes made even as they are being broken. Why do actors sometimes publicly denounce adversaries with whom they intend to negotiate? What...
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This article aims to improve scholars’ understanding of how transnational terrorist organizations emerge, survive, thrive, and eventually die.The authors use a data set that catalogues terrorist organizations and their attacks over time (the ITERATE database of thousands of terrorist...
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This article empirically analyzes the effects of terrorism on the electoral choices of the Turkish voters in the 1991 … security force terror casualties at the district level as a measure of the level of terrorism that the people of that district … have been exposed to and analyzes whether and how exposure to terrorism affects people’s electoral choices. The results …
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Existing scholarly research on terrorism has largely ignored the role of international relations and its effects on … patterns of terrorism. This study argues that strategic interstate relationships can affect the amount of terrorism that a … state experiences and should be considered along with “traditional” determinants of terrorism, such as domestic …
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A consumer-choice theoretical model is developed to test the regional effects of terrorism on competitors' market … January 1991 to December 2000, results show significant own and spillover effects of terrorism on market shares. Terrorist … incidents are decomposed to better identify the impacts of terrorism on tourism. Significant contagion effects of terrorism on …
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