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This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local … randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks to identify the economic impacts of terrorism. The findings suggest that …
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When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites through bribery in exchange for protection to traffic illegal drugs. When criminal groups compete, they may also resort to political violence to influence which candidate wins...
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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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There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous studies in this literature have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Ours is the first comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects...
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one empirical framework. We investigate the effects of Islamist terrorism on citizens' evaluation of the national … terrorism. …
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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
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
There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous studies in this literature have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Ours is the first comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838460
In "Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism? Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate," Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor …
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current policy choice. Deviating from (exogenous) traditional party policy reduces the credibility of a party in the eyes of … voters of both parties. They get either desensitised or over-sensitised in respect to party credibility which alters the …
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