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Introducing the Global Terrorism Database
Gary LaFree,Laura Dugan +1 more
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The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is described, a previously unavailable open source data base that includes some 70,000 domestic and international incidents since 1970 is described and descriptive statistics on the contents of this new resource are provided.Abstract:
Compared to most types of criminal violence, terrorism poses special data collection challenges. In response, there has been growing interest in open source terrorist event data bases. One of the major problems with these data bases in the past is that they have been limited to international events—those involving a national or group of nationals from one country attacking targets physically located in another country. Past research shows that domestic incidents greatly outnumber international incidents. In this paper we describe a previously unavailable open source data base that includes some 70,000 domestic and international incidents since 1970. We began the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) by computerizing data originally collected by the Pinkerton Global Intelligence Service (PGIS). Following computerization, our research team has been working for the past two years to validate and extend the data to real time. In this paper, we describe our data collection efforts, the strengths and weaknesses of op...read more
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Who Says “It’s the Economy”? Cross-National and Cross-Individual Variation in the Salience of Economic Performance:
TL;DR: This article showed that although the economy is often the most important issue in an election, its place on the issue agenda varies across individuals and electoral contexts, and that variations in the economy's salience need to be further incorporated into studies linking economic and political outcomes.
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The Origins of Terrorism - Cross-Country Estimates on Socio-Economic Determinants of Terrorism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined social and economic conditions in the country of origin of terrorist attacks, and claimed 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.
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The impact of british counterterrorist strategies on political violence in northern ireland: comparing deterrence and backlash models*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify six major British strategies aimed at reducing political violence in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1992 and then use a Cox proportional hazard model to estimate the impact of these interventions on the risk of new attacks.
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The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined social and economic conditions in the country of origin of terrorist attacks, claiming that low opportunity costs of terror, e.g. approximated as slow growth and poor institutions raise the propensity of terror and the willingness in the population to support terror.
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Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism
Abstract: Several states, including Israel and the United States, have put decapitation tactics, which seek to kill or capture leaders of terrorist organizations, at the forefront of their counterterrorism efforts. The vast majority of scholarly work on decapitation suggests, however, that leadership decapitation is ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst. Contrary to this conventional wisdom, leadership decapitation significantly increases the mortality rate of terrorist groups, although the results indicate that the effect of decapitation decreases with the age of the group, even to a point where it may have no effect at all. This finding helps to explain the previously perplexing mixed record of decapitation effectiveness. Terrorist groups are especially susceptible to leadership decapitation because their organizational characteristics (they are violent, clandestine, and values based) amplify the difficulties of leadership succession. Additionally, in contrast to the conventional wisdom regarding the...
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