Preface

    Introduction

    Chapter 1 American Jihad, Muslim Americans, and the General Public [Abstract]

    Chapter 2 America’s Homegrown Jihadists and Foreign Fighting [Abstract]

    Chapter 3 Democracy, Civil Liberties, and Terrorism [Abstract]

    Chapter 4 Theory of Terrorist Outbidding and Its Empirical Evidence [Abstract]

    Chapter 5 The Effect of Economic Growth on Terrorism [Abstract]

    Chapter 6 New Findings on the Causes and Effects of Human Rights Violations [Abstract]     

    Chapter 7 Demystifying the Impact of Naming and Shaming [Abstract]

    Chapter 8 Preferential Trade Agreements and Human Rights Abusers [Abstract]

    Chapter 9 Leaders’ Education, Democracy, and Use of Torture [Abstract]

    Chapter 10 Civil War and Rule of Law [Abstract]

    Chapter 11 Civil War, Volunteer Soldiers, and the Military [Abstract]

    Conclusion

    References

    Index

    Preface

    Introduction

    Part I: Double Take

    Chapter 1. Democracy, Ethnicity, Religion, and Civil War: Endogeneity Bias [Abstract]

    Chapter 2. Capitalist Peace, Democratic Peace, and International War: Model Specification Errors [Abstract]

    Chapter 3. A Reanalysis of the Selectorate Model: Fixed-Effects, Heteroskedasticity, and Autocorrelation [Abstract]

    Chapter 4. Examining the Predictability of the Selectorate Theory: Which Aspect of Democracy explains Better, the Size of the     Winning Coalition or Civil Liberties? [Abstract]

    Chapter 5. Democracy, Foreign Direct Investment, and Outliers [Abstract]

    Chapter 6. Explaining the Foreign Direct Investment-Democracy Controversy: Normality of Regression Residuals [Abstract]     

    Chapter 7. Terrorism and Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Regression: A Mismatch between Theory and Statistical Model [Abstract]

    Chapter 8. Democracy and Transnational Terrorism Revisited: Rule of Law [Abstract]

    Part II: Searching for New Ideas and Empirical Evidence

    Chapter 9. Old Habits Die Hard: Leaders' Prior Military Experience, Repression, and Civil War [Abstract]

    Chapter 10. Democracy, Status Quo, and Military Manpower Systems [Abstract]

    Chapter 11. Selectorate Theory, Democracy, and Terrorism: Null Results [Abstract]

    Chapter 12. The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Democracy, Economic Crisis, and Domestic Audience Benefits     [Abstract]

    Chapter 13. The United States' Use of Military Force and Terrorism [Abstract]

    Conclusion

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index