Testing the "Dick Cheney" Hypothesis: Do Governments of the Left Attract More Terrorism than Governments of the Right?

Do governments of the left attract more terrorism than governments of the right? We examine how the political orientation of governments affects the probability of states being the target of terrorist attack. We develop a series of related theoretical linkages between partisan orientation, policy ch...

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Published inConflict management and peace science Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 311 - 326
Main Authors KOCH, MICHAEL T., CRANMER, SKYLER
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 01.12.2007
SAGE Publications
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Binomials
Data Banks
Democracy
Expectations
Government
Left Wing Politics
Nuclear terrorism
Partisanship
Policy
Political Institutions
Political manifesto
Political Parties
Political partisanship
Political violence
Probability
Statistical significance
Terrorism
Terrorists
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Summary:Do governments of the left attract more terrorism than governments of the right? We examine how the political orientation of governments affects the probability of states being the target of terrorist attack. We develop a series of related theoretical linkages between partisan orientation, policy choice, and terrorist behavior to explain why governments of the left should be more likely to see higher numbers of terrorist attacks than governments of the right. We test our expectations using two different datasets; the Database of Political Institutions and the Party Manifesto data against the ITERATE terrorism dataset between the years 1975 and 1997. The results suggest that governments of the left are more likely to be the targets of terrorism than governments of the right and that the causal mechanisms behind this outcome might be context dependent.
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ISSN:0738-8942
1549-9219
DOI:10.1080/07388940701643672