RT Article
T1 What makes terrorism salient?: Terrorist strategies, political competition, and public opinion
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 29
IS 2
SP 197
OP 214
A1 Criado, Henar
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1871444071
AB This article analyzes the determinants of terrorism saliency in public opinion. It is usually assumed that after a terrorist attack, terrorism becomes automatically salient. However, this assumption is only true in those countries where terrorist attacks are exceptional events. In democracies that have suffered domestic terrorism for decades, the evolution of terrorism saliency does not only depend on the frequency or intensity of terrorist attacks. In this article it is claimed that the tactics carried out by terrorist groups (the type of victim, especially) and the dynamics of political competition (especially the ideology of the incumbent) are also factors that explain the evolution of terrorism saliency. The article also analyzes how these two factors interact with citizens’ predispositions to explain variation in their reactions to terrorist threat. The empirical test relies on a novel database from monthly public opinion surveys in Spain from 1993 to 2012.
NO Gesehen am 28.11.2023
NO Published online: 19 Mar 2015
K1 Basque
K1 Catalan
K1 Democracy
K1 Elections
K1 ETA
K1 Public Opinion
K1 saliency
K1 terrorism victims
DO 10.1080/09546553.2015.1008628