Discussions of terrorism assume actual or threatened violence, but the term is regularly used
to delegitimize rivals' nonviolent actions. Yet do ordinary citizens accept descriptions of …

When do Americans view political violence as legitimate? In this article, I use experimental
methods to examine public perceptions of domestic political violence perpetrated to …

Every time a major violent act takes place in the United States, a public debate erupts as to
whether it should be considered terrorism. Political scientists have offered a variety of …

Research on the effects of terrorism mostly focuses on the coercive effects of violence on the
macrolevel, while other effects like provocation, particularly on the microlevel, do not receive …

Far-right domestic terrorism is a major threat to US national security. Despite this reality,
conservative policymakers have downplayed the threat of right-wing violence while arguing …

Why do some rebel groups use terrorism as a tactic while others do not? Why some
opposition groups engage in terrorism while others do not is of obvious importance both to …

This article argues that to better understand involvement in terrorism, research needs to
focus on why most extremists will never actually commit such violence. It starts from the …

The most striking aspect of the current scholarly debate over the political effectiveness of
non-state violence is that, upon careful examination, there is not much of a debate to be …

Why study terrorism? To many the answer might seem all too obvious, but in fact terrorist
attacks are relatively rare events that kill relatively few people-far fewer than civil wars …

Our research juxtaposes terrorism with intrastate wars. We start from the assumption that
terrorism is politically motivated and examine the persistence of these motivations following …