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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250776
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...
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It is found that the “Theory of Moves” is adequate in a Cold War scenario, with functionally equal participants, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The destabilization of normal incentive systems, under power and information asymmetry, is what prevents an equilibrium from being reached, as...
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retaliation hurt Trump. In particular, the pro-Trump effects of US trade war tariffs were crucial for Trump crossing the recount …
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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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This paper presents an empirical test for the hypothesis that US news coverage of al-Qaeda causes al-Qaeda attacks. To isolate causality, disaster deaths worldwide provide an instrumental variable crowding out al-Qaeda coverage. Studying daily al-Qaeda coverage by CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox News, as...
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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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