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The last decade has seen a major shift in how nations prioritize
issues of national and international security, with terrorism
coming to the fore as one of the most significant threats with
which to contend. Building on prior research in this area, The
Political Psychology of Terrorism Fears presents an integrated
collection of empirical and theoretical studies that examine how
emotional responses to terrorism, and fear specifically, influence
political processes. These include not only how people make
decisions about specific governmental policies they support, but
also who they endorse for political office and why. Given that
terrorism and political violence are an international phenomenon,
this volume further demonstrates how these dynamics vary as a
function of cultural and political context. It highlights how "high
trust" societies may in fact buffer against negative emotional
responses (e.g., fear), which in turn informs subsequent political
processes in ways that are meaningfully different from other
societies where baseline trust is not as prevalent. The volume
concludes with a series of papers that discuss how western society
at large has become a "fear-conditioned" society, which in turn has
given rise to a new political and security culture with a vested
interest in such fear dynamics. This book also addresses questions
regarding how issues of terrorism are operationalized and studied,
whether the resulting data are reliable, and the potential effects
of this research on the existing political dynamic.
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