Deterring or Mobilizing? The Influence of Government Partisanship and Force on the Frequency, Lethality and Suicide Attacks of Terror Events

Koch, Michael T.; Tkach, Benjamin

doi:10.1515/1554-8597.1258

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“…Second, Muslim Americans, 'No Signs of Growth in Alienation or Support for Extremism' [53], contained 100 questions, and has been cited by [54,55]. Third, RAND: 'The Impact of Terrorism on Public Opinion, 1988-1989' [33]), consisted of 100 questions and has been peer reviewed and cited by Koch et al [56]; Cole et al [57]. Published peer-reviewed articles that have been cited confirm the reliability and validity of the data in each of the surveys [34].…”

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A Comparison of Public Support for Moderate and Extreme Terrorism

Norman¹

2017

J Foren Psy

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The purpose of this paper is to 'Compare Public Support for Moderate Terrorism and Extreme Terrorism' in high terror active nations (India, Iraq, Nigeria); medium terror active nations (China, United Kingdom, United States); and low terror active nations (Australia, Canada, South Korea); selected from the Global Terrorism Index (2014); and to explore the effects of greater levels of threat (because of increased terror activity), on support by the public. To assess the reliability and validity of a new survey instrument in measuring support for terrorism and to evaluate a series of exploratory questions of added value. The voids highlighted in this paper validate the need for an international legal definition of terrorism, which has eschewed researchers, thus creating the potential for widespread abuse and avoidance of existing terrorism laws. How the media frames a terrorist event plays a significant role in the publics' perception of terrorist organizations and the publics' willingness to support them. It was found that a high percentage of the public are incognizant of which organizations are terrorist organizations; how their donations are being utilized, and persons are often unaware of their role within a terrorist organization. The findings indicated that overall, respondents were least likely to support extremism. Men were more concerned than women about increased terror activity and anti-abortion rights. Women from high terror active nations were least likely to respond to the survey. This research sets the framework for further investigation into moderate and extreme terrorism and exposes the challenges faced by researchers in isolating factors that contribute to public support for terrorism.

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A Comparison of Public Support for Moderate and Extreme Terrorism

Norman¹

2017

J Foren Psy

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“…Similarly, Carson (2018) found that targeted killings of terrorists may suppress the hazard for future terrorist attacks in certain contexts, such as the killing of a terrorist leader that is involved in the daily operations of a terrorist group. Overall, such findings point to the larger implication that more hawkish or repressive government regimes are better able to cripple or deter terrorist operations by the use, or credible threat, of repressive counterterrorism policies (Berrebi & Klor, 2006; Chenoweth & Dugan, 2011; Koch & Cranmer, 2007; Koch & Tkach, 2012).…”

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“…Here, then, developing new insights into the dynamic relationships between state repression and terrorist attacks is promising. Lastly, scholars argue that the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is emblematic of many conflicts with respect to territory and self‐governance, civil or irregular warfare, intractability, and civilian involvement (Berrebi & Klor, 2008; Bhavnani, Miodownik, & Choi, 2011a, 2011b; Koch & Tkach, 2012).…”

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Examining the state repression‐terrorism nexus: Dynamic relationships among repressive counterterrorism actions, terrorist targets, and deadly terrorist violence in Israel

Hsu

McDowall

2020

Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary: This study assesses the impact of state repressive counterterrorism actions on terrorists' targeting and lethality of the terrorism landscape in Israel.Using systematic data on government responses to terrorism and an empirical model that addresses reciprocal relationships, we analyze dynamical interactions between types of government repression with attacks against civilian or government targets, and deadly terrorist violence. Contrary to public policy pronouncements of forcefully fighting terrorism to eradicate terrorist threats, our results suggest that repressive counterterrorism actions by the state increase terror and deadly violence. Importantly, the results indicate that these unintended escalatory or backlash effects are dependent on the scope of government repression, the type of terrorist targets, and the lethality of terrorism.Policy Implications: Our findings provide insight into particular behaviors and exchanges within the state repressionterrorism nexus that evoke and prolong terrorist violence.Centered on key aspects of terrorist activities involving target choice and deadly violence, our ecological study contributes to the development of a systematic understanding of specific impacts of government policies on terrorism. In all, constructing an empirically rigorous evidence base for Criminology & Public Policy. 2020;19:483-514. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/capp

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“…The precise reason why terrorist attacks in a weak institutional environment may generate large responses is that repeated terrorist attacks can weaken a regime and perhaps even cause regime change. Indeed, the timing of terrorism itself in democracies is influenced by political cycles and the strength of incumbent governments, 38 but as also shown in, 39 terrorism may be most effective when used against weaker political institutions ("incomplete autocracies"), and governments perceived as having weaknesses may even invite more and specific types of terrorism or other types of political instability. 40 In such an environment, repeated deliberate political instability may actually be "feeling out" what is the best way to strike at an authoritarian regime, contingent on the costs incurred by merely existing within an authoritarian regime.…”

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Shooting for the Tsars: Heterogeneous Political Volatility and Institutional Change in Russia

Hartwell

2020

Terrorism and Political Violence

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Can deliberate political instability, including terrorism and/or political violence, have an effect on changing formal political institutions? This paper offers two major contributions toward answering this question, one focused on data and one focused on methodology. In the first instance, this paper introduces a brand-new dataset of monthly political instability in Russia from 1788 to 1914; Czarist Russia was a country plagued by informal instability and political violence throughout the nineteenth century, and which saw waves of reform and reaction. As such, it makes an excellent test case for examining the relationship between informal political instability and formal political change. Secondly, in order to trace the evolution of Russia's political institutions in the presence of various forms of instability, I utilize non-traditional estimation in the form of Poisson, IV-Poisson-GMM, and logistic regressions to account for the slow-moving nature of political regime change. The results of these estimations show that some forms of instability did indeed "work" in forcing a modicum of liberalization. On the other hand, large-scale unrest or external conflict had no correlation with political regime change and actually appeared to be counterproductive.

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Deterring or Mobilizing? The Influence of Government Partisanship and Force on the Frequency, Lethality and Suicide Attacks of Terror Events

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

A Comparison of Public Support for Moderate and Extreme Terrorism

A Comparison of Public Support for Moderate and Extreme Terrorism

Examining the state repression‐terrorism nexus: Dynamic relationships among repressive counterterrorism actions, terrorist targets, and deadly terrorist violence in Israel

Shooting for the Tsars: Heterogeneous Political Volatility and Institutional Change in Russia

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