Title:      Design, Inference, and the Strategic Logic of Suicide
Terrorism: A Rejoinder

Authors:    Joshua Clinton, Scott Ashworth, Kris Ramsay, Adam
Meirowitz

Entrydate:  2008-09-25 14:02:02

Keywords:   Research Design, Terrorism 

Abstract:   In "Design, Inference, and the Strategic Logic of
Suicide Terrorism", we show that Robert Pape�s work on
suicide terrorism, particularly his 2003 American Political
Science Review article, is deeply flawed. In "Methods and
Findings in the Study of Suicide Terrorism" (2008), Pape claims
that our criticisms of his work are incorrect. The bulk of his
response, however, ignores the problem we identify in our
comment; instead, he largely summarizes arguments from his later
work, arguments that are irrelevant to our basic point. And when
he eventually addresses the substance of our critique, Pape
simply repeats the error that motivated our original comment. 

http://polmeth.wustl.edu/retrieve.php?id=837

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