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The Effect of Competition on Terrorist Group Operations

Published 2012-11-29 · Replication Data Dataverse

Deposited on Harvard Dataverse doi:10.7910/DVN/FPWZ3W licence: see repository 3 files

About this dataset

Scholars have long accepted the contention that competition among terrorist organizations raises the level of violence used by the competitors. This article discusses this claim and advances another—that competition among terrorist organizations creates incentives to use less violence. Using insights from the organizational ecology literature—namely that competition occurs within “species”—I create a variable that assesses intraspecies competition. I test both claims using a data set of domestic terrorism created from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) for the years 1970 to 1997. I find suppo …

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@dataset{nemeth2012,
  title     = {The Effect of Competition on Terrorist Group Operations},
  author    = {Nemeth, Stephen},
  year      = {2012},
  publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
  doi       = {10.7910/DVN/FPWZ3W},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FPWZ3W}
}

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Description

Data model
Discipline
Social sciences
Method family
Empirical (quantitative)
Design
not specified
Research stage
Data acquisition
Contributors
Stephen Nemeth (Data curation)
Usage
not used in published research yet
Source
Harvard Dataverse · Replication Data Dataverse
Record
dataset:dataverse/10-7910-dvn-fpwz3w · JSON

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