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Terrorism and the media : the effect of US television coverage on Al-Qaeda attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
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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Terrorism and voting behavior: evidence from the United States
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418449
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Terrorism and voting behavior : evidence from the United States
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021
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
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Terrorism and Voting Behavior : Evidence from the United States
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250776
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Everybody's a victim? : global terror, well-being and political attitudes
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Elsayed, Ahmed - 2018
Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change political attitudes. This paper suggests the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872810
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Attack When the World Is Not Watching? U.S. News and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Durante, Ruben; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2020
Politicians may strategically time unpopular measures to coincide with newsworthy events that distract the media and the public. We test this hypothesis in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We find that Israeli attacks are more likely to occur when U.S. news on the following day...
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Constitutions and economic development: evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
parliamentary systems, such as larger public employment, and more equitable income distribution. -- economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575381
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Corporate campaign contributions as a predictor for abnormal stock returns after presidential elections
Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael - 2008
Contributions by investor-owned companies play major roles in financing the campaigns of candidates for elective office in the United States. We look at the presidential level and analyze contributions by companies before an election and their stock market performance following US presidential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733230
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Youth enfranchisement, political responsiveness and education expenditure : evidence from the U.S.
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Lancia, Francesco - 2017
This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in different states in different years. Employing a difference-in-differences regression design, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738837
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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870139