Public Support and Terrorism: The Putin Paradox
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Public Support and Terrorism: The Putin Paradox
The increase in the number of terrorist attacks in Russia suggests that anti-terrorist policies have failed to solve the Chechen terrorist problem. The Putin paradox, named after Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, is the capacity of the incumbent government to maintain or even increase its popular support while suffering increasing terrorist attacks. This paper presents a dynamic model where go...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Open Political Science Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1874-9496
DOI: 10.2174/1874949600801010001