The Political Consequences of Assassination

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ID6284682
AutoresZaryab Iqbal (Pennsylvania State University), Christopher Zorn (0000-0003-3103-330X, Pennsylvania State University)
Ano2008
Volume52
Fascículo3
Páginas385-400
Data de publicação2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022002707310855
OpenAlexW2100090757
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas40

The assassination of a political leader is among the highest-profile acts of political violence, and conventional wisdom holds that such events often have substantial political, social, and economic effects on states. We investigate the extent to which the assassination of a head of state affects political stability through an analysis of all assassinations of heads of state between 1952 and 1997. We examine the political consequences of assassination by assessing the levels of political unrest, instability, and civil war in states that experience the assassination of their head of state. Our findings support the existence of an interactive relationship among assassination, leadership succession, and political turmoil: in particular, we find that assassinations' effects on political instability are greatest in systems in which the process of leadership succession is informal and unregulated

Ecological succession · Political economy · Political instability · Political science · Political stability · Political violence · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · Unrest · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence