TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Terrorism and Cabinet Duration
JO  - International economic review
A1  - Gassebner, Martin
A1  - Jong‐A‐Pin, Richard
A1  - Mierau, Jochen O.
SP  - 1253
EP  - 1270
VL  - 52
IS  - 4
N2  - Terrorism can strengthen or weaken electoral support for ruling governments. We show in a simple model of coalition formation that, regardless of the direction of a public opinion shock, the impact of terrorism on cabinet duration is ambiguous. However, in an analysis of a data set including 2,400 cabinets in over 150 countries in the period 1970-2002, we find that terrorism, on average, shortens cabinet duration. This result is robust for a range of alternative terror measures and is present in both democratic as well as autocratic political regimes.<p />
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SN  - 0020-6598
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2011.00666.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -