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A Cross-National Analysis of the Impact of Terrorist Attacks on Civil Liberties and Political Rights.

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There is abundant anecdotal evidence indicating that encroachments on civil liberties and political rights occur in countries subsequent to terrorist attacks. To date, however, there have few if any attempts to analyze the relationship between terrorist incidents and restrictions of freedom in a systematic and comparative fashion. Using combined data from Freedom House and the Global Terrorism Database, this paper uses time-series analysis to test a series of hypotheses linked to that relationship. Do terrorist incidents systematically produce infringements on existing levels of freedom? Are specific types of incidents, perpetrators or victims related to particular types of encroachment? If a relationship exists, is it mediated in any way by regime type? Is there a temporal dimension to the relationship such that limitations on freedom are later relaxed as time passes after the date of the attack or is the political landscape permanently altered? If one definition of terrorist ‘success’ is the capacity to induce political change, an understanding of the conditions under which such change does or does not take place addresses the much broader question of whether terrorism ‘works.’
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Ryan, Jeffrey. and Lampinen, Stephanie. "A Cross-National Analysis of the Impact of Terrorist Attacks on Civil Liberties and Political Rights." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, <Not Available>. 2010-03-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p363948_index.html>

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Ryan, J. and Lampinen, S. "A Cross-National Analysis of the Impact of Terrorist Attacks on Civil Liberties and Political Rights." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL <Not Available>. 2010-03-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p363948_index.html

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Abstract: There is abundant anecdotal evidence indicating that encroachments on civil liberties and political rights occur in countries subsequent to terrorist attacks. To date, however, there have few if any attempts to analyze the relationship between terrorist incidents and restrictions of freedom in a systematic and comparative fashion. Using combined data from Freedom House and the Global Terrorism Database, this paper uses time-series analysis to test a series of hypotheses linked to that relationship. Do terrorist incidents systematically produce infringements on existing levels of freedom? Are specific types of incidents, perpetrators or victims related to particular types of encroachment? If a relationship exists, is it mediated in any way by regime type? Is there a temporal dimension to the relationship such that limitations on freedom are later relaxed as time passes after the date of the attack or is the political landscape permanently altered? If one definition of terrorist ‘success’ is the capacity to induce political change, an understanding of the conditions under which such change does or does not take place addresses the much broader question of whether terrorism ‘works.’

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