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The Contagiousness of Aircraft Hijacking
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In this paper, the authors developed a mathematical model of contagion and applied it to aircraft hijackings in the United States between 1968 and 1972, and found no contagion effects of unsuccessful hijacking attempts.Abstract:
It has often been claimed that aircraft hijacking is a "contagious" phenomenon, that the motivation to hijack aircraft spreads from one individual to another as a result of media coverage of hijacking incidents. This article develops a mathematical model of contagion and applies it to aircraft hijackings in the United States between 1968 and 1972. Analyses show that successful hijackings in the United States did generate additional hijacking attempts of the same type (either transportation or extortion). There were no contagion effects of unsuccessful hijacking attempts in the United States or any effects on U.S. hijacking attempts of such attempts outside the United States.read more
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McQuail's mass communication theory
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The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition or Learning?
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The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition, or Learning?
TL;DR: The diffusion of policies across countries has been studied extensively by sociologists and political scientists as mentioned in this paper, pointing to the diverse mechanisms that are theorized and to promising avenues for distinguishing among causal mechanisms.
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