Abstract
This study examines the electoral consequences for ideologically right-leaning political parties in the wake of terrorist attacks by employing an original dataset that captures political party vote shares and multiple terrorist indicators. Our analysis extends the partisan voting hypothesis to 56 democracies from multiple regions and levels of development between 1975–2014. Specifically, we find that the origins of terrorist perpetrators, the severity of terrorist attacks, and the frequency of terrorist incidents decrease right-party vote shares in legislative contests when incorporating standard controls. All told, these findings reinforce political psychological reasoning that contends terrorist attacks impact citizens’ emotions and voting calculations.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 441-471 |
Number of pages | 31 |
Journal | World Affairs |
Volume | 184 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2021 |
Keywords
- Cross-National Elections
- Domestic Terrorism
- Elections
- Electoral Behavior
- Legislative Elections
- Parties
- Partisan Voting
- Right Parties
- Terrorism
- Transnational Terrorism
- Voting Behavior
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences