Replication Data for: Deprivation, instability, and propensity to attack: how urbanization influences terrorism

The study investigates different ways that urbanization and its tempo influence terrorist activity. In line with other researchers investigating non-linear effects on instability, we suggest that the influence of both of them is non-linear, with quadratic regression being more appropriate for urbanization level impact and interaction between urbanization and its tempo being more appropriate to measure the tempo’s influence. Non-linearity has been confirmed in the robustness section of the paper, in which alternative dependent variable distribution and a greater set of control variables were used. The findings are in line with the ones of other researchers who found that societies, in the process of modernization, demonstrate heavier instability than societies before modernization or those after the modernization period.

本研究探讨了城市化及其发展速率对恐怖主义活动的多重影响路径。与其他研究社会不稳定非线性影响的学者思路一致，我们认为二者的影响均呈现非线性特征：二次回归更适配城市化水平的影响效应分析，而城市化与其发展速率的交互项则更适合用于衡量发展速率的作用效果。本文的稳健性检验部分已验证了该非线性特征，该部分采用了替代因变量分布与更丰富的控制变量集开展实证分析。本研究结论与其他学者的研究发现相符：处于现代化进程中的社会，其不稳定程度高于现代化启动前与现代化完成后的社会。