Terrorism and Political Self-Placement in European Union Countries

Athina Economou () and Christos Kollias

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2015, vol. 21, issue 2, 217-238

Abstract: Studies have shown that citizens’ risk-perceptions and risk-assessment are affected by large scale terrorist acts. Reported evidence shows that individuals are often willing to trade-off civil liberties for enhanced security particularly as a post-terrorist attack reaction as well as adopting more conservative views. Within this strand of the literature, this paper examines whether terrorism and in particular mass-casualty terrorist attacks affect citizens’ political self-placement on the left-right scale of the political spectrum. To this effect the Eurobarometer surveys for 12 European Union countries are utilized and ordered logit models are employed for the period 1985–2010 with over 230,000 observations used in the estimations. On balance, the findings reported herein seem to be pointing to a shift in respondents’ self-positioning towards the right of the political spectrum.

Keywords: Europe; ordered logit models; political self-placement; terrorism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 C01 H56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/peps-2014-0036

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