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Overview

James A. Piazza is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly contributions span various subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, gender studies, artificial intelligence, and communication. The bulk of their work-64 publications-centers on social sciences, with a notable emphasis on sociopolitical phenomena.

The research topics extensively explored by Piazza cover terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence, social and intergroup psychology, political conflict and governance, populism and right-wing movements, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, migration, refugees and integration, as well as misinformation and its impacts. These topics illustrate an interdisciplinary approach blending political dynamics with social behavior and media influence.

Frequent publication venues for Piazza include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Interactions
  • Security Studies
  • American Politics Research

Key recent papers authored by James A. Piazza encompass:

  • Politician hate speech and domestic terrorism, 2020, published in International Interactions
  • Fake news: the effects of social media disinformation on domestic terrorism, 2021, published in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict
  • Political Polarization and Political Violence, 2023, published in Security Studies
  • It's About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence, 2022, published in American Politics Research

Piazza has also contributed to collaborative work, including coauthorship on a 2022 paper titled A comparison of political violence by left-wing, right-wing, and Islamist extremists in the United States and the world, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (coauthored with Katarzyna Jaśko).

Frequent coauthors working alongside Piazza are:

  • Michael J. Soules
  • Katarzyna Jaśko
  • Gary LaFree
  • Michael Becker
  • Natalia Van Doren

Best Publications

  • Rooted in Poverty?: Terrorism, Poor Economic Development, and Social Cleavages 1

    James A. Piazza

  • Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?

    James A. Piazza

  • Poverty, minority economic discrimination, and domestic terrorism

    James A Piazza

  • Is Islamist Terrorism More Dangerous?: An Empirical Study of Group Ideology, Organization, and Goal Structure

    James A. Piazza

  • Why Respecting Physical Integrity Rights Reduces Terrorism

    James I. Walsh;James A. Piazza

  • Draining the Swamp: Democracy Promotion, State Failure, and Terrorism in 19 Middle Eastern Countries

    James A. Piazza

  • Do Democracy and Free Markets Protect Us From Terrorism

    James A Piazza

  • Regime Types and Terrorism

    Khusrav Gaibulloev;James A. Piazza;Todd Sandler

  • Autocracies and Terrorism: Conditioning Effects of Authoritarian Regime Type on Terrorist Attacks

    Matthew C. Wilson;James A. Piazza

  • A Supply-Side View of Suicide Terrorism: A Cross-National Study

    James A. Piazza

  • Types of Minority Discrimination and Terrorism

    James A. Piazza

  • Games Rivals Play: Terrorism in International Rivalries

    Michael G. Findley;James A. Piazza;Joseph K. Young

  • Globalizing Quiescence: Globalization, Union Density and Strikes in 15 Industrialized Countries

    James A. Piazza

  • Transnational Terror and Human Rights

    James A. Piazza;James Igoe Walsh

  • De-Linking Labor Labor Unions and Social Democratic Parties under Globalization

    James Piazza

  • Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict

    Victor Asal;Michael Findley;James A. Piazza;James Igoe Walsh

  • Ethnic groups, political exclusion and domestic terrorism

    Seung Whan Choi;James A. Piazza

  • Repression and Terrorism: A Cross-National Empirical Analysis of Types of Repression and Domestic Terrorism

    James A. Piazza

  • Physical Integrity Rights and Terrorism

    James A. Piazza;James Igoe Walsh

  • The determinants of domestic right-wing terrorism in the USA: Economic grievance, societal change and political resentment

    James A. Piazza

  • Terrorist Suspect Religious Identity and Public Support for Harsh Interrogation and Detention Practices

    James A. Piazza

  • Politician hate speech and domestic terrorism

    James A. Piazza

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael G. Findley
Michael G. Findley The University of Texas at Austin
Joseph K. Young
Joseph K. Young University of Kentucky
Gary LaFree
Gary LaFree University of Maryland, College Park
Todd Sandler
Todd Sandler The University of Texas at Dallas
John Horgan
John Horgan Georgia State University
Victor Asal
Victor Asal University at Albany, State University of New York
Paul Gill
Paul Gill University College London

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