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Tyrants and Terrorism: Why some Autocrats are Terrorized while Others are Not∗
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| Author | Conrad, Courtenay R. Conrad, Justin Young, Joseph K. |
| Abstract | Conventional wisdom suggests that reports of terrorism should be sparse in dictator-ships, both because such violence is unlikely to result in policy change (Eubank and Weinberg, 1994; Pape, 2003; Kydd and Walter, 2006a) and because it is difficult to get reliable information on attacks (Eubank and Weinberg, 1994; Drakos and Gofas, 2006a,b; Abrahms, 2007). Yet, there is variance in the number of terrorist attacks reported in autocracies. Why? We argue that differences in the audience costs pro-duced by dictatorships explain why some non-democracies experience more terrorism than others. Terrorists are more likely to expect “success ” in dictatorships that gen-erate high domestic audience costs. Using data from multiple terrorism databases, we find empirical evidence that dictatorships generating higher audience costs—military dictatorships, single-party dictatorships, and dynastic monarchies—experience as much terrorism as democracies, while autocracies generating lower audience costs—personalist dictatorships and non-dynastic monarchies—face fewer attacks than their democratic counterparts. |
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