Terrorism and public opinion: the effects of terrorist attacks on the popularity of the president of the United States

This article uses a large-n dataset to investigate the effect of terrorist attacks with American victims on the popularity of the U.S. president. The study uses two broad theoretical frameworks to analyze this effect, the score-keeping framework and the rally-effect framework. The findings of the st...

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Main Author: Randahl, David 1990- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2018, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 373-383
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Keywords:
Public Opinion
rally effect
score keeping
September 11, 2001
U.S. president
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Summary:This article uses a large-n dataset to investigate the effect of terrorist attacks with American victims on the popularity of the U.S. president. The study uses two broad theoretical frameworks to analyze this effect, the score-keeping framework and the rally-effect framework. The findings of the study show that, when excluding the effect from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, actual terrorist attacks have no generalizable short-term impact on the popularity of the U.S. president. This indicates that even though the topics of national security, terrorism, and the president’s ability to handle these issues are important in the political debate in the United States, actual terrorism has little or no short-term impact on presidential approval ratings.
Item Description:Gesehen am 17.11.2023
Published online: 12 May 2016
ISSN:1556-1836
DOI:10.1080/09546553.2016.1167687