Terrorism and electoral accountability: One strike, you're out!

Gassebner, Martin; Jong‐A‐Pin, Richard; Mierau, Jochen O.

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2007.12.011

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“…1 Gassebner et al (2008) show that terrorists are at least to some extent successful in destabilizing the political system, as terror attacks increase the probability of cabinet dissolutions. …”

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Does government decentralization reduce domestic terror? An empirical test

Dreher

Fischer

2011

Economics Letters

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Does government decentralization reduce domestic terror? An empirical test

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Fischer

2011

Economics Letters

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“…Such negative effects may feed through to a reduction of overall economic growth (Crain and Crain 2006;Gaibulloev and Sandler 2008). It may also produce political costs, e.g., by affecting government stability (Gassebner, Jong-A-Pin and Mierau 2008) or voter behavior (Berrebi and Klor 2008). regularly use terror as a means to meet other objectives. The main hypothesis is that terror is more easily generated in those parts of the world where poor socio-economic conditions and institutions prevail.…”

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The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Abstract:As a prerequisite of an appropriate anti-terror strategy, it is indispensable to assess the underlying causes of terror. We examine social and economic conditions in the country of origin of terrorist attacks, claiming that low opportunity costs of terror, e.g., approximated by slow growth and poor institutions raise the likelihood of terror and the willingness in the population to support terror. Using a negative binomial regression model, we are able to show that unfortunate socio-economic conditions in a country are likely to reduce the opportunity costs of potential terrorists and increase the number of terrorist attacks originating from a specific country. Interestingly, this effect is particularly relevant after a certain level of development has been reached. We therefore distinguish between several broad country groups, namely the OECD, Europe and Islamic countries.JEL classification: P16, F15, C25

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“…According to Gassebner et al (2008, politicians' reelection probabilities and the stability of government cabinets decline in the wake of a militant attack. These same authors show that the effects grow more intense with a greater number of casualties.…”

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The activity and lethality of militant groups: Ideology, capacity, and environment

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2014

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

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What determines the activity and lethality of militant groups? To answer this question, a two-step count method disentangles activity and lethality in terms of ideology, capacity, and environmental factors. A first step assesses the determinants of group activity, measured by the number of incidents in which a group was involved. The second step considers the number of fatalities, conditional on the number of incidents.Similar factors drive militant group activity and lethality, but some links are stronger than others. Specifically, ideological factors are particularly strong determinants of lethality; capacity and environmental factors matter more for activity.

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Terrorism and electoral accountability: One strike, you're out!

Cited by 130 publications

References 7 publications

Does government decentralization reduce domestic terror? An empirical test

Does government decentralization reduce domestic terror? An empirical test

The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism

The activity and lethality of militant groups: Ideology, capacity, and environment

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