Introduction: What is this paper about, what is your argument, why is it important to study this topic?
Topic: Understanding the influence of media coverage on the success of terrorist groups employing suicide bombing tactics.
Argument: Greater media coverage contributes significantly to the success of groups that utilize suicide bombing.
Importance: This research is important because existing literature often underscores the significance of understanding the role of media within terrorist attacks that involve suicide bombing.
Literature Review: Who has done what on your DV? Your control variables should come from this section. Find alternative explanations for these control variables with peer-reviewed sources.
Control variables: regime type, income, ideology
DV: Suicide bombing
IV: Success
Theory: What is the causal mechanism, give some examples. This is the most important part of the
paper has to be very developed. At the end of the section, once you made your arguments, write your hypothesis clearly:
Hypothesis 1: Terrorist groups that utilize suicide bombing are more likely to be successful.
Research Design: Explain your DV, IV, Control variables clearly, define thresholds, data sources, measurement of your variables and your design, using a most different design. Explain briefly how your data verifies your hypothesis. Using these 6 groups: (Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Boko Haram, Taliban, ISIS and LTTE) find data constructing a table.
Measure success with media attention
Use Nexis Uni and GTD
Greater than 10K = High media attention
Less than 10K = Low media attention
Note: You need to explain what yes/no means for success, weak/strong means for democracy, high/low means for income, religious/not religious for ideology in the research design. Give me definitions, define thresholds and why you picked those thresholds.
Conclusions: Wrap up, what did you find, are there any significant policy implications from your findings?