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Deadly Premonition: Does Terrorist-Leader Psychology Influence Violence Lethality?
| Title: | Deadly Premonition: Does Terrorist-Leader Psychology Influence Violence Lethality?. |
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| Name(s): |
Besaw, Clayton, Author Schafer, Mark, Committee Chair Jacques, Peter, Committee Member Mousseau, Michael, Committee Member , Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2014 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | This thesis seeks to address a theoretical and empirical gap within terrorism studies, and more specially the study of terrorist-group lethality. This research updates a model of terrorist-group lethality by including terrorist-leader psychology as an individual-level variable in predicting terrorist-group lethality. Terrorist-leader statements were analyzed by using two novel coding schemes called Operational Code and Leadership Trait Analysis to create quantified measurements of leader cognitive beliefs and personality traits. The empirical portion of this study utilizes pooled cross-sectional time-series data within the framework of fixed effects and multi-level estimation models. The results find that terrorist-leader psychology, and more specifically Instrumental (Strategic) Beliefs and Distrust, are significant predictors of subsequent group-lethality. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0005132 (IID), ucf:50679 (fedora) | |
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2014-05-01 M.A. Sciences, Political Science Masters This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | Terrorism -- Leadership -- Psychology -- Quantitative Methodology | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005132 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public 2014-05-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
