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This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of … identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first confirm that the success of terror attacks is plausibly random by showing … terrorism has less of an influence on voters than is usually thought. …
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This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of … identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first confirm that the success of terror attacks is plausibly random by showing … terrorism has less of an in uence on voters than is usually thought. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422196
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment …, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism …
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Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation...
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An agenda-building model was examined for the question of Africa and terrorism. A path analysis compared real …-world events (deaths and attacks attributed to terrorism), presidential emphasis, media coverage, and foreign aid for 20 African … nations. Results show a clear agenda-building trend—when nations were emphasized with a terrorism frame. Presidential emphasis …
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expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find … where the events of September 2001 took place worry a lot about their safety. In addition, fear of terrorism discourages … households from investing in stocks, mostly through the high levels of insecurity felt by females. Insecurity due to terrorism …
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expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find … where the events of September 2001 took place worry a lot about their safety. In addition, fear of terrorism discourages … households from investing in stocks, mostly through the high levels of insecurity felt by females. Insecurity due to terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864066
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Strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been the primary weapon used by the United States to combat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from...
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The results of empirical research on whether media attention encourages terrorism differ according to the study period … breaks are systematically taken into account, and both domestic and transnational terrorism are considered. Data on terrorism … are drawn from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), while the media attention variable is constructed by the number of New …
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