Automated Author Profile

Young, Joseph K.

American University

Current S-Index

2.7

Sum of Dataset Indices for all datasets

Average Dataset Index per Dataset

0.4

Average Dataset Index per dataset

Total Datasets

7

Total datasets for this author

Average FAIR Score

15.4%

Average FAIR Score per dataset

Total Citations

6

Total citations to the author's datasets

Total Mentions

0

Total mentions of the author's datasets

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Datasets

Terrorism, Democracy, and Credible Commitments (Version: 1.0)

What explains the variation in terrorism within and across political regimes? We contend that terrorism is most likely to occur in contexts in which governments cannot credibly restrain themselves from abusing their power in the future. We consider a specific institutional arrangement, whether a state has an independent judiciary, and hypothesize that independent judiciaries make government commitments more credible, thereby providing less incentive for the use of terrorism. Using a recently released database that includes transnational and domestic terrorist events from 1970 to 1997, we estimate a set of statistical analyses appropriate for the challenges of terrorism data and then examine the robustness of the results. The results provide support for the credible commitment logic and offer insights into the different ways that political institutions increase or decrease terrorism.

Authors

  • Findley, Michael G. ;
  • Young, Joseph K.
1 Citation0 Mentions15% FAIR0.4 Dataset Index
10.7910/dvn/fgucef2018

Tyrants and Terrorism: Why Some Autocrats are Terrorized While Others are Not (Version: 1.0)

Conventional wisdom suggests that reports of terrorism should be sparse in dictatorships, both because such violence is unlikely to result in policy change and because it is difficult to get reliable information on attacks. Yet, there is variance in the number of terrorist attacks reported in autocracies. Why? We argue that differences in the audience costs produced by dictatorships explain why some nondemocracies experience more terrorism than others. Terrorists are more likely to expect a response in dictatorships that generate high domestic audience costs. Using data from multiple terrorism databases, we find empirical evidence that dictatorships generating higher audience costs—military dictatorships, single-party dictatorships, and dynastic monarchies—experience as much terrorism as democracies, while autocracies generating lower audience costs—personalist dictatorships and non-dynastic monarchies—face fewer attacks than their democratic counterparts.

Authors

  • Conrad, Courtenay R. ;
  • Conrad, Justin ;
  • Young, Joseph K.
1 Citation0 Mentions15% FAIR0.4 Dataset Index
10.7910/dvn/ihidvp2017

Replication data for: Repression, Dissent, and the Onset of Civil War (Version: 1.0)

Replication materials for Young (2013), Political Research Quarterly

Authors

  • Young, Joseph K.
1 Citation0 Mentions15% FAIR0.5 Dataset Index
10.7910/dvn/264782014

Replication data for: Can peace be purchased? A sectoral-level analysis of aid's influence on transnational terrorism (Version: 3.0)

Replication Materials for Young and Findley (2011) Public Choice

Authors

  • Young, Joseph K.
0 Citations0 Mentions15% FAIR0.1 Dataset Index
10.7910/dvn/278442014

Replication data for: Cultures of Violence and Acts of Terror Applying a Legitimation-Habituation Model to Terrorism (Version: 1.0)

Replication materials for Mullins and Young (2011), Crime & Delinquency

Authors

  • Young, Joseph K.
1 Citation0 Mentions15% FAIR0.4 Dataset Index
10.7910/dvn/264832014

Replication data for: Partisanship and Policy Choice: What's Left for the Left in Latin America? (Version: 1.0)

Replication materials for Kingstone and Young (2009), Political Research Quarterly

Authors

  • Young, Joseph K.
1 Citation0 Mentions15% FAIR0.4 Dataset Index
10.7910/dvn/264862014

Replication data for: State Capacity, Democracy, and the Violation of Personal Integrity Rights (Version: 1.0)

Replication materials for Young (2009), Journal of Human Rights

Authors

  • Young, Joseph K.
1 Citation0 Mentions15% FAIR0.4 Dataset Index
10.7910/dvn/264852014