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

Michael T. Koch and Skyler Cranmer
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Michael T. Koch: Department of Political Science Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA, mtkoch@polisci.tamu.edu
Skyler Cranmer: Department of Political Science University of California, Davis Davis, California, USA

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2007, vol. 24, issue 4, 311-326

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/07388940701643672

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