A Review of Psychological Factors in Voting Behaviour after Terror Attacks

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2020-12-26

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Lale, Emre
Gitmez, Tolga

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In the last thirty years, different countries have been struggling with different terrorist organizations and a variety of their methods. Even though the effects of terrorist attacks are in plain sight for our daily lives, those incidents can have a deep impact on the institutions of democracies, such as election. This paper aims to collect different pieces of information from the literature on terror attacks and election results and tries to interpret what factors might explain the change in the election results. The existing literature present cases from Spain, Turkey, Israel, Peru and France. After reviewing those cases, election results and the contexts the attacks took place we argue that different models of voting and rally-round-the-flag effect can be used to explain why incumbent parties may gain support after terror attacks, whereas different emotions can moderate the decreasing support for incumbent parties.

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Terror Attacks, Election Results, Rally-round-the-flag Effect, Voting Models, Voting Behaviour, Terör Saldırıları, Seçim Sonuçları, Bayrak Etrafında Toplanma Etkisi, Oy Verme Modelleri, Oy Verme Davranışı

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/114169
http://ijeass.gedik.edu.tr/tr/pub/issue/58658/847243

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