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  title info:
    title: Tactical Decision Making in Terrorist Organizations
  name:
    name part: Bondarenko, Lauren Aubrey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Whitten, Guy
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Teodoro, Manuel
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A&M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: From 1970 to 2019, approximately 71% of all terrorist attacks were classified as either a bombing or an armed assault. This pattern suggests that other tactical choices are made with less frequency and may need specific explanations. How are tactical decisions made within terrorist organizations? And what factors influence those decisions? While there is a robust political science literature on the causes and consequences of terrorism writ large, relatively little is known about how terrorist organizations approach decision-making across their tactical repertoires. In this dissertation, I will explore several potential factors that could influence how tactical decisions are made by terrorist organizations. First, I argue that terrorist organizations use specific tactics and expand the number of tactics employed in response to increasing uncertainty in the external operating environment, specifically in response to a state⁰́₉s use of repressive actions. I argue that, where possible, terrorist organizations will match the state⁰́₉s repression actions in subsequent at-tacks. Further, when a matching technique is no longer available, a terrorist organization will have no choice but to increase the number of tactical types it employs in an attempt to make its actions less predictable for the state. In the next two chapters, I approach the question of tactical decision-making from an organizational perspective, drawing upon literature on isomorphic pressures that organizations face. In the second empirical chapter, I develop an argument for terrorist professionalization based on the relationships between parent, affiliate, and allied organizations. The final empirical chapter pivots the focus to the relationship between parent, splinter, and rival organizations. Specifically, I argue that the existence of splinter and rival organizations are evidence of radical movements inside the profession, which tests the jurisdictional bounds of the profession. Developing and testing…
  note: by Lauren Bondarenko.
  note: "Major Subject: Political Science"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2022 https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/197297
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Political Science
  subject:
    topic: terrorist
  subject:
    topic: terrorism
  subject:
    topic: terrorist organization
  subject:
    topic: tactics
  subject:
    topic: professionalization
  subject:
    topic: professionalism
  subject:
    topic: isomorphism
  subject:
    topic: repression
  subject:
    topic: decision-making
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/197297
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 240819
    record change date: 20240820145855.0
    record identifier: in00005463576
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng