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Terror headlines and voting

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  • Ghazaryan, Armine
  • Giulietti, Corrado
  • Wahba, Jackline

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By combining data on terror news and individual political preferences, this paper finds that headlines about ISIS and terrorism in the context of the Syrian crisis increased the support for right-wing populism in England for the period 2013 to 2019.

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  • Ghazaryan, Armine & Giulietti, Corrado & Wahba, Jackline, 2022. "Terror headlines and voting," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 216(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:216:y:2022:i:c:s0165176522001616
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110562
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    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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