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James A. Piazza
Researcher at Pennsylvania State University
Publications - 63
Citations - 3582
James A. Piazza is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Terrorism & Politics. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 55 publications receiving 3137 citations. Previous affiliations of James A. Piazza include University of North Carolina at Charlotte & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Rooted in Poverty?: Terrorism, Poor Economic Development, and Social Cleavages 1
TL;DR: In this article, a series of multiple regression analyses on terrorist incidents and casualties in ninety-six countries from 1986 to 2002, the authors considered the significance of poverty, malnutrition, inequality, unemployment, inflation, and poor economic growth as predictors of terrorism, along with a variety of political and demographic control variables.
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Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?
TL;DR: This paper found that states plagued by chronic state failures are statistically more likely to host terrorist groups that commit transnational attacks, have their nationals commit trans-national attacks and are targeted by transnational terrorists themselves.
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Poverty, minority economic discrimination, and domestic terrorism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revisited the relationship between poverty and terrorism and suggested a new factor to explain patterns of domestic terrorism: minority economic discrimination, and found that countries featuring minority group economic discrimination are significantly more likely to experience domestic terrorist attacks.
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Why Respecting Physical Integrity Rights Reduces Terrorism
James Igoe Walsh,James A. Piazza +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that abuse of the subset of rights known as physical integrity rights fuels terrorism by making it more difficult for government authorities to collect intelligence on terrorists and by undermining domestic and international support for their counterterrorism efforts.
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Is Islamist Terrorism More Dangerous?: An Empirical Study of Group Ideology, Organization, and Goal Structure
TL;DR: The authors showed that there are two basic types of Islamist terrorist groups whose organizational and goal-structure features explain divergent casualty rates: "strategic groups" that function similarly to secular national-liberation and regime-change movements and "abstract/universal groups" affiliated with the global al-Qaeda network.