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This paper examines how violence influences the political preferences of an aggrieved constituency that is purportedly represented by militant factions. Using public opinion poll micro data of the Palestinian population linked to data on fatalities from the Second Intifada, we find that although...
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generates two precise empirical predictions about the interaction between terrorism and electoral outcomes. First, we expect the … relative support for the right-wing party 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 in office than it is …
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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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the cessation of violence. Research findings suggest substantial residential property value effects of terrorism as …
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In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between Israeli fatalities claimed by groups associated with...
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This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...
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"How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local … indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. Pogroms during the Black Death are a strong and robust predictor of violence against Jews …
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