Terrorism and cabinet duration: An empirical analysis

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We examine the relationship between terrorism and cabinet duration. Our data set includes more than 2,400 cabinets in over 150 countries in the period 1968-2002. We find a small, but significant effect of terrorism on the probability of government failure. Furthermore, we find that the impact of terrorism depends on the type of attack and is larger in case of more severe attacks. Marginal effect calculations show that the impact of terror on cabinet duration is larger than the impact of economic variables such as economic growth, but less than the impact of a civil war or a government crisis. Our results suggest that cabinets in countries with high levels of terrorism are particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: KOF Working Papers ; No. 181

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; International Relations and International Political Economy: Other ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
• Subject: terror ; political stability ; cabinet dissolution ; Politische Gewalt ; Dauer ; Regierungswechsel ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gassebner, Martin ; Jong-A-Pin, Richard ; Mierau, Jochen O.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
• (where): Zurich
• (when): 2007

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005502879
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/50334
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET