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Title
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Deadly Premonition: Does Terrorist-Leader Psychology Influence Violence Lethality?.
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Creator
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Besaw, Clayton, Schafer, Mark, Jacques, Peter, Mousseau, Michael, University of Central Florida
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Abstract / Description
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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...
Show moreThis 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.
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Date Issued
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2014
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Identifier
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CFE0005132, ucf:50679
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005132
