Arie Perliger
Biographic Data
| ID | 258628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arie Perliger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arie |
| FAMILY NAME | Perliger |
| SIGNATURE | PERLIGER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-3879-713X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
An Overview of Media Coverage Shifts Before and After the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
The 2024 U.S. presidential election was historically unprecedented, featuring the first Black woman on a major party ticket, a late-stage Democratic nominee replacement, and the return of former President Donald Trump. This study provides a longitudinal analysis of how mainstream news coverage shifted in topic salience and tone before and after the election. Using socially mediated news articles from five high-circulation U.S. newspapers (January…
Exploring the Religious Dimensions of American Far-Right Extremist Discourse
Hybridization or Salad Bar Ideology? Testing Ideological Convergence Within the American Violent Far Right
In September 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray described far-right extremist motivations as “a mishmash” or “salad bar” of ideologies. Academics and practitioners have further promoted such ideas using case studies of inter-organizational collaboration. The current study tests the “Salad Bar” and Hybridization hypotheses by analyzing the online discourse of far-right extremist groups to identify similarities and differences in their designation…
The Digital Spin: Political Agenda Setting on Alternative Social Media Platforms
Objective This study examines how agenda setting operates in today's hybrid media ecosystem by investigating how mainstream political events during the 2024 US election year were discussed on alternative social media platforms. Methods The study analyzes over 2000 mainstream news articles about high‐profile political events from January to March 2024, and related discourse across Facebook, Gab, Truth Social, and Telegram using Structural Topic Mo…
Explaining the Rise of Antisemitism in the United States
In October 2021, the American Jewish Committee released a survey that indicated that one out of four American Jews was victimized by antisemitism that year. Similarly, the Anti-Defamation League reported in 2022 that the number of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reached its highest level since the organization began tracking antisemitism in 1979. The current research investigates the link between local social factors and the proliferation of an…
The role of demographic diversification of the police force in curbing hate crimes: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
A growing body of evidence shows that minorities are disproportionately targeted for hate crimes. However, few studies have examined how increasing the representation of minority officers in police departments can impact hate crime rates. Drawing on cross-section and longitudinal data from sources such as Law Enforcement Management and Administration Statistics (LEMAS), the U.S. Census, and Challengers from the Sidelines, the current study examin…
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States
Increasing levels of extreme weather patterns and environmental deterioration pose pertinent threats to the availability of essential resources, such as food and water. Past research has found a positive association between climate change and the likelihood of internal conflicts, especially in developing countries. We argue that intensifying climate events can lead to an increase in the spread and intensity of both left and right-wing ideological…
The Violence of Political Empowerment: Electoral Success and the Facilitation of Terrorism in the Republic of India
Ideological violence, according to previous research, tends to spike following what may be perceived as an electoral success of an ideologically-affiliated political camp. Despite a growing number of examples across the globe, the extent to which ideological success in electoral processes impacts terrorism within constituencies remains under-researched. This exploratory analysis seeks to examine how majority-minority outcomes in the electoral pro…
How Emotional Traits and Practices Lead to Support in Acts of Political Violence
The current study aims to assess the emotional processes that foster support for political violence. A survey of 1202 respondents was used to identify the association between emotional traits, support for extremist groups, and willingness to engage in political violence. Additionally, we tested how attitudinal traits’ interaction with emotional factors may impact radicalization. Our findings indicate that aspects of anger and anxiety, as well as …
Anger, Anxiety, and Selective Exposure to Terrorist Violence
We examine the political consequence of exposure to widely available video content of terror violence. In a two-wave survey of Americans, we assess who is exposed to, and seeks out, terror-related video content in the first wave and then observe who decides to watch raw video footage of the Boston marathon terror attack in the second. We focus centrally on anxiety and anger as differing emotional reactions to the threat of terrorism and document …
Reconstructing the theater of terror
The study explores the nexus of violence and mass media, and the ability of terrorists to enhance their influence and resources via effective marketing of their actions. We utilized a dataset of 242 IS propaganda videos in order to examine how the Islamic State employed visual propaganda to enhance the effectiveness of a low-cost, high-impact terrorist campaign, by reconstructing the theater of terror. Our findings illustrate the positive relatio…
The Irrational Terrorist and Other Persistent Terrorism Myths
American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by right-wing ideologies. The need to understand the nature and danger of far-right violence is greate…
Mapping Connections and Cooperation between Terrorist and Criminal Entities
In recent years, terrorist groups intensified their cooperation with criminal entities or their independent engagement in criminal activities. But why and how, exactly, is cooperation with criminal actors beneficial for terrorist groups? And under which political and economic conditions are criminal and terrorist entities more inclined to cooperate or coordinate their operations? Despite the growing interest of academics and practitioners in the …
The Radical Right in Israel
In a landmark article, Sammy Smooha, a prominent scholar of Israel’s regime, argued that as an ethnic democracy, Israel was unlikely to witness the emergence of “European-style” radical right-wing populism. The gist of the argument was that in ethnic democracies the state already occupies the ideological spaces that radical right-wing parties fill in liberal democracies, leaving such ideologies no room to evolve. In contrast to Smooha, this chapt…
Fighting together? understanding bilateral cooperation in the realm of counterterrorism
Since September 11, there has been marked rise in research on the transnational aspect of terrorist organizations, such as Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. However, there has been little focus on when and why nations sometimes cooperate in counterterrorism, while at other times they deal with the challenge of terrorism separately. Our contribution here is two-fold. First, we develop a conceptual framework that identifies the different w…
Terrorism Networks
A recent development in the field of terrorism studies is the growing understanding that analytical frameworks that focus on in-group social processes are highly effective in improving our understanding of the inner dynamics of terrorist groups. Many students of terrorism have begun to challenge some fundamental conventions regarding the way terrorist groups emerge and operate and the relations between members’ roles and profiles. Less attention …
The Role of Civil Wars and Elections in Inducing Political Assassinations
Political assassinations can dramatically impact political and social dynamics, especially in times of violent political conflicts or electoral competition. The current study explores if and how specific social and political events facilitate the occurrence of political assassinations. After an examination of the logic of political assassinations, a theoretical framework is presented, which explains the role of civil wars and electoral processes …
Counter Cultures, Group Dynamics and Religious Terrorism
Totalistic ideologies are breeding grounds for radicalization. Communities that adhere to such ideologies tend to rally when they feel threatened by powerful outsiders. Under such circumstances, community leaders become central. If they frame the situation as an existential threat to the community itself or to its most sacred values, they will accelerate the radicalization process and subsequently increase the prospects of violent actions by grou…
The Gap Between Participation and Violence: Why We Need to Disaggregate Terrorist ‘Profiles
For decades, practitioners and academics sought to identify a common terrorist “profile.” However, the consensus in both the policy realm and academia suggests that, so far, these efforts produced only modest insights. This research note identifies and addresses a major impediment to previous studies of terrorist profiles: conceptualization. We argue that ambiguities in the definition of the term terrorist lead to an inconsistent and aggregated o…
The Peculiar Victory of The National Camp in the 2013 Israeli Election
This article argues that attempts to characterize the outcome of the elections to the 19th Knesset as a defeat of the Israeli right are misleading. By using a three-dimensional analysis of the ideological makeup of the Knesset, based on the ideological manifestos of the parties, the socio-demographic profiles of Knesset members and analyses of election results utilizing electoral data and socio-demographic data obtained from Israel's Central Bure…
Comparative Framework for Understanding Jewish and Christian Violent Fundamentalism
Although most scholars agree that in the last couple of decades, religious fundamentalism has become the dominant ideological feature in the landscape of modern terrorism, many prefer to ignore the fact that this is not a development which is restricted to the Islamic world, and that other religious traditions have also experienced growth in groups which prefer to use violent strategies to promote their sacred visions. The current chapter strives…
"Comment on "Religious Violence in Judaism: "Past and Present" by Gideon Aran and Ron E. Hassner
How Democracies Respond to Terrorism: Regime Characteristics, Symbolic Power and Counterterrorism
While the academic study of counterterrorism has gained momentum in recent years, it still suffers from major theoretical weaknesses. One of the most prominent shortcomings is an absence of theories that can effectively explain the factors that shape the counterterrorism policies of democratic regimes. The present study attempts to fill this theoretical void in two ways. First, it proposes an analytical framework for a classification of counterte…
Altruism and Fatalism: The Characteristics of Palestinian Suicide Terrorists
Over the last decade, the suicide method became one of the most prevalent tactics of Palestinian Terrorism in Israel. Who are these people, willing to sacrifice their lives in such an act, and what drives them to do such things? In our present analysis, we answer these questions, while relying on the concepts of altruistic and fatalistic suicide from Durkheim's typology of suicide behavior. Based on a newly established database compiled for this …
The Changing Nature of Suicide Attacks: A Social Network Perspective
To comprehend the developments underlying the suicide attacks of recent years, we suggest that the organizational approach, which until recently was used to explain this phenomenon, should be complemented with a social network perspective. By employing a social network analysis of Palestinian suicide networks, we have found that, in contrast to prevailing perceptions which view suicide attacks as a product of strategic decisions made within organ…
Anger, Anxiety, and Selective Exposure to Terrorist Violence
We examine the political consequence of exposure to widely available video content of terror violence. In a two-wave survey of Americans, we assess who is exposed to, and seeks out, terror-related video content in the first wave and then observe who decides to watch raw video footage of the Boston marathon terror attack in the second. We focus centrally on anxiety and anger as differing emotional reactions to the threat of terrorism and document …
The Gap Between Participation and Violence: Why We Need to Disaggregate Terrorist ‘Profiles
For decades, practitioners and academics sought to identify a common terrorist “profile.” However, the consensus in both the policy realm and academia suggests that, so far, these efforts produced only modest insights. This research note identifies and addresses a major impediment to previous studies of terrorist profiles: conceptualization. We argue that ambiguities in the definition of the term terrorist lead to an inconsistent and aggregated o…
Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
The academic community studying terrorism has changed dramatically in the past decade. From a research area that was investigated by a small number of political scientists and sociologists and employed mainly descriptive and qualitative studies that resulted in limited theoretical progress (Schmid and Jongman 1988; Crenshaw 2000), it has in a short time become one of the more vibrant and rapidly developing academic realms in the scholarly world t…
I versus We: Collective and Individual Factors of Reserve Service Motivation during War and Peace
This study examines conditions of peace and war to find whether the 'rally 'round the flag' effect is indeed attributed to rising levels of social collectivism. Reserve service motivation in peacetime and wartime was compared among 1,004 Israeli reservists. Levels of motivation and the factors that affect them were examined during the optimism of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process (February 2000) and about a year and a half into the second Int…
An alternative approach for defining the boundaries of ‘party families: Examples from the Israeli extreme right‐wing party scene
For many years the ‘party family’ concept has been utilised by scholars for the purpose of classifying political parties across both countries and time. Like many other concepts in political science, the ‘party family’ idea is widely used, yet has suffered from a certain level of ambiguity. In this study, we try to clarify and re‐emphasise the importance of the ‘party family’ concept. We do so by offering an integrative approach for the classific…
Explaining the Rise of Antisemitism in the United States
In October 2021, the American Jewish Committee released a survey that indicated that one out of four American Jews was victimized by antisemitism that year. Similarly, the Anti-Defamation League reported in 2022 that the number of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reached its highest level since the organization began tracking antisemitism in 1979. The current research investigates the link between local social factors and the proliferation of an…
How Democracies Respond to Terrorism: Regime Characteristics, Symbolic Power and Counterterrorism
While the academic study of counterterrorism has gained momentum in recent years, it still suffers from major theoretical weaknesses. One of the most prominent shortcomings is an absence of theories that can effectively explain the factors that shape the counterterrorism policies of democratic regimes. The present study attempts to fill this theoretical void in two ways. First, it proposes an analytical framework for a classification of counterte…
Mapping Connections and Cooperation between Terrorist and Criminal Entities
In recent years, terrorist groups intensified their cooperation with criminal entities or their independent engagement in criminal activities. But why and how, exactly, is cooperation with criminal actors beneficial for terrorist groups? And under which political and economic conditions are criminal and terrorist entities more inclined to cooperate or coordinate their operations? Despite the growing interest of academics and practitioners in the …
The Changing Nature of the Israeli Reserve Forces: Present Crises and Future Challenges
The Israeli reservists played a major role in the protest movements that developed after the 1973 War and the First Lebanon War (1982-85). In other cases, debates about moral and political issues within the Israeli political system included petitions and rallies conducted by groups of reservists. How can scholars explain the special standing of the Israeli reservists within Israeli society? Why, during the 1970s and the 1980s, did the protests of…
The Role of Civil Wars and Elections in Inducing Political Assassinations
Political assassinations can dramatically impact political and social dynamics, especially in times of violent political conflicts or electoral competition. The current study explores if and how specific social and political events facilitate the occurrence of political assassinations. After an examination of the logic of political assassinations, a theoretical framework is presented, which explains the role of civil wars and electoral processes …
Counter Cultures, Group Dynamics and Religious Terrorism
Totalistic ideologies are breeding grounds for radicalization. Communities that adhere to such ideologies tend to rally when they feel threatened by powerful outsiders. Under such circumstances, community leaders become central. If they frame the situation as an existential threat to the community itself or to its most sacred values, they will accelerate the radicalization process and subsequently increase the prospects of violent actions by grou…
The causes of vigilante political violence: The case of Jewish settlers
On Friday morning. 27 February 1994, 29 Palestinian worshipers werekilled and more than 100 were wounded in Hebron after they were attackedby Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish settler, who eame from the nearby settlementof Kiryat-Arba. This event was without doubt one of the most devastatingacts of violence ever perpetrated by Jewish settlers, but it was merely asingle event in a long period of continuous brutal violenee betweenPalestinian Arabs and Jew…
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States
Increasing levels of extreme weather patterns and environmental deterioration pose pertinent threats to the availability of essential resources, such as food and water. Past research has found a positive association between climate change and the likelihood of internal conflicts, especially in developing countries. We argue that intensifying climate events can lead to an increase in the spread and intensity of both left and right-wing ideological…
Fighting together? understanding bilateral cooperation in the realm of counterterrorism
Since September 11, there has been marked rise in research on the transnational aspect of terrorist organizations, such as Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. However, there has been little focus on when and why nations sometimes cooperate in counterterrorism, while at other times they deal with the challenge of terrorism separately. Our contribution here is two-fold. First, we develop a conceptual framework that identifies the different w…
Comparative Framework for Understanding Jewish and Christian Violent Fundamentalism
Although most scholars agree that in the last couple of decades, religious fundamentalism has become the dominant ideological feature in the landscape of modern terrorism, many prefer to ignore the fact that this is not a development which is restricted to the Islamic world, and that other religious traditions have also experienced growth in groups which prefer to use violent strategies to promote their sacred visions. The current chapter strives…
Jewish Self-Defence and Terrorist Groups Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel: Roots and Traditions
The causes of vigilante political violence: The case of Jewish settlers
On Friday morning. 27 February 1994, 29 Palestinian worshipers werekilled and more than 100 were wounded in Hebron after they were attackedby Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish settler, who eame from the nearby settlementof Kiryat-Arba. This event was without doubt one of the most devastatingacts of violence ever perpetrated by Jewish settlers, but it was merely asingle event in a long period of continuous brutal violenee betweenPalestinian Arabs and Jew…
Altruism and Fatalism: The Characteristics of Palestinian Suicide Terrorists
Over the last decade, the suicide method became one of the most prevalent tactics of Palestinian Terrorism in Israel. Who are these people, willing to sacrifice their lives in such an act, and what drives them to do such things? In our present analysis, we answer these questions, while relying on the concepts of altruistic and fatalistic suicide from Durkheim's typology of suicide behavior. Based on a newly established database compiled for this …
An alternative approach for defining the boundaries of ‘party families: Examples from the Israeli extreme right‐wing party scene
For many years the ‘party family’ concept has been utilised by scholars for the purpose of classifying political parties across both countries and time. Like many other concepts in political science, the ‘party family’ idea is widely used, yet has suffered from a certain level of ambiguity. In this study, we try to clarify and re‐emphasise the importance of the ‘party family’ concept. We do so by offering an integrative approach for the classific…
A Review of: “Robert. A. Pape: Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism Ami Pedahzur: Suicide Terrorism Farhad Khosrokhavar (Translated by David Macey): Suicide Bomber : Allah's New Mart…
The Changing Nature of Suicide Attacks: A Social Network Perspective
To comprehend the developments underlying the suicide attacks of recent years, we suggest that the organizational approach, which until recently was used to explain this phenomenon, should be complemented with a social network perspective. By employing a social network analysis of Palestinian suicide networks, we have found that, in contrast to prevailing perceptions which view suicide attacks as a product of strategic decisions made within organ…
Political Parties and Terrorist Groups
This book is the definitive guide to the topical issue of the relationship between political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy. The fully revised edition continues to provide the most detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of this controversial issue, highlighting the fluid nature of boundaries between terrorist organisation and legitimate political …
Guest Editor's Introduction for the Special Volume on the July–August 2006 War Between Israel and Hezbollah
I versus We: Collective and Individual Factors of Reserve Service Motivation during War and Peace
This study examines conditions of peace and war to find whether the 'rally 'round the flag' effect is indeed attributed to rising levels of social collectivism. Reserve service motivation in peacetime and wartime was compared among 1,004 Israeli reservists. Levels of motivation and the factors that affect them were examined during the optimism of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process (February 2000) and about a year and a half into the second Int…
A Response to Townes
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Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
The academic community studying terrorism has changed dramatically in the past decade. From a research area that was investigated by a small number of political scientists and sociologists and employed mainly descriptive and qualitative studies that resulted in limited theoretical progress (Schmid and Jongman 1988; Crenshaw 2000), it has in a short time become one of the more vibrant and rapidly developing academic realms in the scholarly world t…
The Changing Nature of the Israeli Reserve Forces: Present Crises and Future Challenges
The Israeli reservists played a major role in the protest movements that developed after the 1973 War and the First Lebanon War (1982-85). In other cases, debates about moral and political issues within the Israeli political system included petitions and rallies conducted by groups of reservists. How can scholars explain the special standing of the Israeli reservists within Israeli society? Why, during the 1970s and the 1980s, did the protests of…
How Democracies Respond to Terrorism: Regime Characteristics, Symbolic Power and Counterterrorism
While the academic study of counterterrorism has gained momentum in recent years, it still suffers from major theoretical weaknesses. One of the most prominent shortcomings is an absence of theories that can effectively explain the factors that shape the counterterrorism policies of democratic regimes. The present study attempts to fill this theoretical void in two ways. First, it proposes an analytical framework for a classification of counterte…
"Comment on "Religious Violence in Judaism: "Past and Present" by Gideon Aran and Ron E. Hassner
The Peculiar Victory of The National Camp in the 2013 Israeli Election
This article argues that attempts to characterize the outcome of the elections to the 19th Knesset as a defeat of the Israeli right are misleading. By using a three-dimensional analysis of the ideological makeup of the Knesset, based on the ideological manifestos of the parties, the socio-demographic profiles of Knesset members and analyses of election results utilizing electoral data and socio-demographic data obtained from Israel's Central Bure…
Comparative Framework for Understanding Jewish and Christian Violent Fundamentalism
Although most scholars agree that in the last couple of decades, religious fundamentalism has become the dominant ideological feature in the landscape of modern terrorism, many prefer to ignore the fact that this is not a development which is restricted to the Islamic world, and that other religious traditions have also experienced growth in groups which prefer to use violent strategies to promote their sacred visions. The current chapter strives…
Terrorism Networks
A recent development in the field of terrorism studies is the growing understanding that analytical frameworks that focus on in-group social processes are highly effective in improving our understanding of the inner dynamics of terrorist groups. Many students of terrorism have begun to challenge some fundamental conventions regarding the way terrorist groups emerge and operate and the relations between members’ roles and profiles. Less attention …
The Role of Civil Wars and Elections in Inducing Political Assassinations
Political assassinations can dramatically impact political and social dynamics, especially in times of violent political conflicts or electoral competition. The current study explores if and how specific social and political events facilitate the occurrence of political assassinations. After an examination of the logic of political assassinations, a theoretical framework is presented, which explains the role of civil wars and electoral processes …
Counter Cultures, Group Dynamics and Religious Terrorism
Totalistic ideologies are breeding grounds for radicalization. Communities that adhere to such ideologies tend to rally when they feel threatened by powerful outsiders. Under such circumstances, community leaders become central. If they frame the situation as an existential threat to the community itself or to its most sacred values, they will accelerate the radicalization process and subsequently increase the prospects of violent actions by grou…
The Gap Between Participation and Violence: Why We Need to Disaggregate Terrorist ‘Profiles
For decades, practitioners and academics sought to identify a common terrorist “profile.” However, the consensus in both the policy realm and academia suggests that, so far, these efforts produced only modest insights. This research note identifies and addresses a major impediment to previous studies of terrorist profiles: conceptualization. We argue that ambiguities in the definition of the term terrorist lead to an inconsistent and aggregated o…
The Radical Right in Israel
In a landmark article, Sammy Smooha, a prominent scholar of Israel’s regime, argued that as an ethnic democracy, Israel was unlikely to witness the emergence of “European-style” radical right-wing populism. The gist of the argument was that in ethnic democracies the state already occupies the ideological spaces that radical right-wing parties fill in liberal democracies, leaving such ideologies no room to evolve. In contrast to Smooha, this chapt…
Fighting together? understanding bilateral cooperation in the realm of counterterrorism
Since September 11, there has been marked rise in research on the transnational aspect of terrorist organizations, such as Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. However, there has been little focus on when and why nations sometimes cooperate in counterterrorism, while at other times they deal with the challenge of terrorism separately. Our contribution here is two-fold. First, we develop a conceptual framework that identifies the different w…
American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by right-wing ideologies. The need to understand the nature and danger of far-right violence is greate…
Mapping Connections and Cooperation between Terrorist and Criminal Entities
In recent years, terrorist groups intensified their cooperation with criminal entities or their independent engagement in criminal activities. But why and how, exactly, is cooperation with criminal actors beneficial for terrorist groups? And under which political and economic conditions are criminal and terrorist entities more inclined to cooperate or coordinate their operations? Despite the growing interest of academics and practitioners in the …
The Irrational Terrorist and Other Persistent Terrorism Myths
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