The Primacy of Premodern History

Grygiel, Jakub J.

doi:10.1080/09636412.2013.757169

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“…Rather than coerce policy concessions, other scholars propose that ideological drivers, the fulfillment of cultural expectation of particular identity groups, the pursuit of nonmaterial objectives or even the outright elimination of adversaries constitute the major goals of modern terrorist organizations (Abrahms 2008; Acosta 2016; Grygi e l 2013; Moghaddam 2005). Regardless of their objectives, terrorist attacks certainly change the political position of the group through the provision of new information about them to governments, people or both 2 .…”

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confidence: 99%

Do Islamic State’s Deadly Attacks Disengage, Deter, or Mobilize Supporters?

Barceló¹,

Labzina²

2018

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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What are the consequences of committing violent attacks for terrorist organizations? Terrorist attacks might broaden the base of supporters by increasing the perceived group efficacy. However, terrorist attacks might also lead its supporters to believe that the organization is excessively violent or involvement may become too dangerous. This article employs a unique dataset with 300,842 observations of 13,321 Twitter accounts linked to the Islamic State (IS), collected during a 127-day period, to empirically investigate the impact of terrorist attacks on the number of the organization’s supporters. By exploiting the exogenous timing of terrorist attacks as a natural experiment, we find that the number of followers of IS-related Twitter accounts significantly reduces in the aftermath of the attacks. Additionally, we provide some suggestive evidence to disentangle two mechanisms: disengagement – a change in supporters’ beliefs – and deterrence – demobilization due to fear. Because we do not find support for the latter, we conclude that the disengagement effect might explain our main result.

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Section: Terrorist Attacks: Mobilization Disengagement and Deterrencementioning

confidence: 99%