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The research on the influence of democracy on terrorism renders support for two causal mechanisms. One is that … democracy reduces terrorism because it creates an environment in which dissenters can pursue their interests through peaceful … means. The other argument states that democracy encourages terrorism due to the intrinsic liberties and freedoms that …
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A long-standing research tradition on political culture argues that greater support for core liberal values leads to a rejection of destructive political activities and reduced support for violent politics. In this vein, many contemporary analysts of security policy contend that a lack of...
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property is a robust feature of terrorism, persisting when we control for economic development of the target country, the type … global terrorism. Finally, we describe a simple toy model for the generation of these statistics and briefly discuss its …
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While it is commonly assumed that the United States uses foreign aid as an instrument to combat global terrorism, it is … relationship between transnational terrorism and foreign aid flows is strongly conditional on whether terrorist activity based in a … determinant of both whether that state receives any aid and also how much aid it receives. In contrast, the presence of terrorism …
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Can endorsement of the ethos of conflict alter psychological effects of exposure to political violence? Israelis and Palestinians have been in a state of political and military turmoil for decades. We interviewed 781 Israelis and 1,196 Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East...
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This article reviews the state of the art of available theories and data regarding the psychology of terrorism. Data … bases of terrorism. The field is largely characterized by theoretical speculation based on subjective interpretation of … this early stage of terrorism studies, preliminary reports suggest that modifiable social and psychological factors …
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reducing terrorism. The leader changes in the two cases, with the weaker player going first to the advantage of both players …
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theoretical model generates two precise empirical predictions about the interaction between terrorism and electoral outcomes …. First, the relative support for the right-wing party is expected 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 …
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Research on civil conflict focuses primarily on identifying underlying and proximate causes while leaving many questions of subsequent social consequences unanswered. Few studies have systematically examined how these conflicts affect public opinion, especially tolerance attitudes. Additionally,...
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infrastructure of terrorism directed against India from Pakistan-controlled territory remains intact due to inaction of the Pakistan …
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