Terrorism, Signaling, and Suicide Attack

Hoffman, Bruce; McCormick, Gordon H.

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“…Instead, he found that while nationalism and occupation do increase the likelihood of suicide attack campaigns, democracy has no significant effects, although like Pape, Asal found that ongoing rebellion has a significant impact. He also found that ongoing governmental discrimination, a factor dismissed by others, increases the likelihood of suicide attack campaigns (e.g., see Hoffman and McCormick 2004). 4 …”

Section: Existing Empirical Suicide Terrorism Researchmentioning

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Does Democracy Matter?

Wade

Reiter

2007

Journal of Conflict Resolution

130

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This article conducts quantitative tests on the relationship between regime type and suicide terrorism for 1980 to 2003. We present the recently popularized argument that democracies are more likely to experience suicide terrorism and a new hypothesis that mixed regimes are especially likely to experience suicide terrorism. We offer several improvements in research design, including using more controls, the nation-year as the unit of analysis, and more appropriate statistical techniques. Using both Freedom House and Polity data, we find that in general, regime type is uncorrelated with suicide terrorism. We do find that there is a statistically significant interaction between regime type and the number of religiously distinct minorities at risk (MARs) with suicide terrorism, but the statistical significance of this finding is limited, and its substantive impact is marginal. We also find that national size, Islam, national experience with suicide terrorism, and global experience with suicide terrorism affect the likelihood of suicide terrorism.

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Section: Existing Empirical Suicide Terrorism Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Democracy Matter?

Wade

Reiter

2007

Journal of Conflict Resolution

130

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“…Certain values, sometimes called sacred or protected values, may be critically involved in important decisions in life [20 -22], as well as in sustaining cultural and political conflicts [23 -25]. Decisions based on sacred values, such as whether to become a priest or a suicide bomber, often seem to follow a rule-bound logic of moral appropriateness and absolutist thinking, which, at least in a proximate sense, defies the cost-benefit calculations and means-end logic of realpolitik and the marketplace [26,27]. Even in objectively economic contexts, such as when playing one-shot economic games, people will make apparently morally motivated and personally costly decisions to obey social norms, or to punish those who do not (cf.…”

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War as a moral imperative (not just practical politics by other means)

Ginges

Atran

2011

Proc. R. Soc. B.

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We present findings from one survey and five experiments carried out in the USA, Nigeria and the Middle East showing that judgements about the use of deadly intergroup violence are strikingly insensitive to quantitative indicators of success, or to perceptions of their efficacy. By demonstrating that judgements about the use of war are bounded by rules of deontological reasoning and parochial commitment, these findings may have implications for understanding the trajectory of violent political conflicts. Further, these findings are compatible with theorizing that links the evolution of within-group altruism to intergroup violence.

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“…This approach is empirically supported by several cases on the bargaining table to determine the costs and benefits for both parties, such as the Northern Ireland case (Brams & Togman 1998). In addition, suicide attacks are understood as "instrumental tactics" and "strategic logic" in order to obtain organizational objectives by minimizing costs and maximizing benefits (Hoffman & McCormick 2004, Pape 2003. This approach explains that terrorist groups end the use of terrorism when costs are too high and that non-violent terrorist groups start to use violence when cost and benefit structure changes due to contextual changes.…”

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Organizational Behavior of Terrorist Groups

Jung

Lee

2015

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Terror attacks have been typically performed by group members, which implies that perpetrators were not independent actors, but acted violently as being part of a larger group. In addition, the execution of terrorist attacks is not only facilitated by macro-level factors but also as the tools to increase payoffs, survival, and maintenance at the group level. As links between disgruntled individuals and society, organizational behavior elements are something that needs to be examined. In this paper, several organizational behavior theories to compare were applied and contrast between terrorist groups and normal organizations under the categories of mobilizations, decision-making, and leadership.

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Terrorism, Signaling, and Suicide Attack

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Does Democracy Matter?

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Organizational Behavior of Terrorist Groups

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