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Replication data for: Design, Inference, and the Strategic Logic

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Title Replication data for: Design, Inference, and the Strategic Logic
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/B9OL3N
 
Creator Joshua D. Clinton
Scott Ashworth
Adam Meirowitz
Kris Ramsay
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
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Replication data and code forthcoming



In "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," Robert Pape presents an analysis of his suicide terrorism data. He uses the data to draw inferences about how territorial occupation and religious extremism affect the decision of terrorist groups to use suicide tactics. We show that the data are incapable of supporting Pape's conclusions because he "samples on the dependent variable." (The data only contains cases in which suicide te
rror is used.) We construct bounds (Manski, 1995) on the quantities relevant to Pape's hypotheses and show exactly how little can be learned about the relevant statistical associations from the data produced by Pape's research design