Did the different public-health policies that Sweden and Denmark pursued in the beginning
of the COVID-19 pandemic result in different levels of public trust in governments' and health …

An increasing number of studies exploit the occurrence of unexpected events during the
fieldwork of public opinion surveys to estimate causal effects. In this paper, we discuss the …

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit internationally in March 2020, governments and political
incumbents received exceptionally high approval ratings. Such a sudden spike of public …

How do terrorist attacks influence migration attitudes? We argue that the influence of attacks
depends on the location of whoever receives the terrorist news, and derive two hypotheses …

Over recent years, Europe has experienced a series of Islamic terrorist attacks. In this article,
conflicting theoretical expectations are derived on whether such attacks increase populist …

We study the effects of terrorism on political trust and national versus ethnic identification.
Making use of unexpected attacks by the extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, which …

Studies about Islamist‐inspired terror attacks in the Western world have identified a recently
declining impact on public opinion. What explains this development? I argue that the wider …

Conventional wisdom holds that terrorism has a wide‐ranging impact on a polity. At the
same time, a complementary, yet less extensive body of research discusses the impact of …

Can positive expectations help foster resiliency against adversity? In this study, we used
high-frequency panel data, to examine how positive as compared to neutral and negative …

Terrorism often seeks to impact democratic politics. This article explores how it can influence
the electoral fortunes of the incumbent. Existing research is contradictory. Models of …