Replication data for: Do Governments of the Left Attract more Terrorism than Governments of the Right?

Do governments of the left attract more terrorism than governments of the right? We examine how the political orientation of governments affects the probability of states being the target of terrorist attack. We develop a series of related theoretical linkages between partisan orientation, policy choice, and terrorist behavior to explain why governments of the left should be more likely to see higher numbers of terrorist attacks than governments of the right. We test our expectations using two different datasets; the Database of Political Institutions and the Party Manifesto data against the ITERATE terrorism data set between the years 1975 and 1997. The results suggest that governments of the left are more likely to be the targets of terrorism than governments of the right and that the causal mechanisms behind this outcome might be context dependent.

左翼政府是否比右翼政府更容易招致恐怖主义袭击？本研究考察政府的政治取向如何影响国家成为恐怖袭击目标的概率。我们构建了一系列关联政党取向、政策选择与恐怖主义行为的理论逻辑链条，以解释为何左翼政府相较于右翼政府更易遭遇更多恐怖袭击。我们采用两套不同的数据集——《政治制度数据库》（Database of Political Institutions）与政党纲领数据集（Party Manifesto data），结合1975至1997年的ITERATE恐怖主义数据集（ITERATE terrorism data set）对研究假设进行实证检验。研究结果显示，左翼政府确实比右翼政府更易成为恐怖主义袭击的目标，且该结果背后的因果机制可能具有情境依赖性。