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Political violence: an introduction

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This article sets the stage for this special issue on political violence by providing some necessary background and definitions. For example, data plots are displayed to capture past and recent trends in transnational and domestic terrorist attacks, interstate and intrastate wars, and battle-related deaths. These plots document the changing nature of political violence in recent years. Additionally, this article indicates the basic themes of each study in this issue, along with their primary findings and methodologies. Special issue articles shed light on important aspects of terrorism, civil wars, coups, and piracy.

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  1. See Shughart (2006) for a historical perspective of terrorism starting in 1945. This interesting article adopts a constitutional political economy perspective and separates terrorism into three waves: national liberation and ethnic separatism; left-wing; and Islamist terrorism.

  2. Some of this escalation is an artifact of the Global Terrorism Database, which applied new coding procedures in recent years that identify more events as terrorism.

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Acknowledgments

Special thanks are due to William F. Shughart II, who provided content and editorial assistance on all articles of this special issue. Khusrav Gaibulloev and William F. Shughart II provided helpful advice on this introduction. Justin George generated the four figures in the article.

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Sandler, T. Political violence: an introduction. Public Choice 169, 161–170 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-016-0380-1

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