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Formal models of revolutionary collective action suggest that ‘informational cascades’ play a crucial role in overcoming collective action problems. These models highlight how information about the aggregate level of participation in collective action conveys information about...
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This article relies on data from the 2005–09 World Values Survey to examine individual and cross-national variation in perception of the seriousness of global warming. The data show that a large majority of the public in all countries are concerned about the problem of global warming and...
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The literature on economic sanctions has long studied sender countries’ policymaking as a simple choice between imposing sanctions to extract concessions from the targeted country and doing nothing. We depart from this simplifying assumption and analyze sanctions as a multifaceted foreign...
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Although individual citizens perceive the human rights conditions in their country differently, existing research on human rights and public opinion has tended to ignore the possible impact from international sources of information. This article builds upon previous research on human rights,...
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Previous research has shown that foreign policy crises can cause a ‘rally ’round the flag’ effect, boosting citizens’ approval of their leaders. While scholars agree on the effect’s existence, its magnitude and nature are less readily apparent. This article...
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There is an increasing number of analyses of the effects of terrorism, especially its impact on public opinion. Most of …
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revisits the relationship between poverty and terrorism and suggests a new factor to explain patterns of domestic terrorism …: minority economic discrimination. Central to this study is the argument that because terrorism is not a mass phenomenon but … likely to experience terrorism. I also find minority economic discrimination to be a strong and substantive predictor of …
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While military protocol requires that POWs provide only name, rank, serial number, and date of birth (the so-called Big 4), it is naive to think that all detainees, including terrorists, behave in this fashion. Instead, there is evidence that detainees partially cooperate with their captors by...
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problems of terrorism, despite its poor empirical record. Using a game theoretic model, I demonstrate that US military aid … campaigns are ongoing, but will lose this aid once the problem of terrorism ceases, host states have little incentive to … terrorist groups out of power. These hypotheses are tested using the Jones & Libicki (2008) data on terrorism from 1997 to 2006 …
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, in turn, enhances economic performance. This article investigates the effect of terrorism on income, including its … indirect role through lowering trust. We consider terrorism as a factor that can increase the cost of investing in technology … World Values Survey and international terrorism incidence data from ITERATE. Using empirical tests, we first show that …
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