Development of indicators of political reversibility due to terrorist crises using the integral model

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science and Law, Islamic Azad University, Baft Branch, Kerman, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Law, Islamic Azad University, Baft Branch, Kerman, Iran.

Abstract

Political reversibility examines the capacity of political organizations to respond appropriately to internal and external events such as war, terrorist attacks, etc., and to adapt to the political changes and consequences that result from such events. The researchers of this study tried to address the research topic due to the scientific gap in this field. The main question of this research is what indicators can be provided for reversibility in the face of the political consequences of terrorist attacks? To answer this question, researchers have studied the specialized texts using the analytical model of pluralism of the integral methodology, and to do this, in four separate steps, each time follow another quarter of the intersection of terrorism and society, and according to four levels of analysis; The terrorist person, the terrorist person in the heart of the terrorist group, the community supporting terrorism and the community victim of terrorism, a total of 69 indicators were identified. Content validity method and Lavache model were used to determine the validity of the indicators. The target population was selected using the proposed model of Lavoshe 16 experts in the field of politics and security, of which 14 questionnaires were completed and delivered to researchers. After analyzing the questionnaires, 31 indicators were accepted. In the next step, in order to classify the indicators based on the three reversible capacities. Based on the proposed model, 31 finalized explicit indicators were considered in the form of three hidden variables  including absorption.

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Emergency Management
Volume 10, Passive Defense
July 2022
Pages 111-124

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History

  • Receive Date: 21 June 2021
  • Revise Date: 05 December 2021
  • Accept Date: 16 January 2022

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