The Gate Data Project
The Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) data project is a multi-institutional effort to collect and code data on state actions toward non-state actors in protracted conflict zones. To date, the GATE database is the most comprehensive source of information on how governments respond on a day-today basis to terrorist violence. These data can be used to identify how different types of actions affect terrorist violence, why governments select certain actions, and a variety of other questions.
Initially intending to collect data solely on counterterrorism policies, Korbel Professor Erica Chenoweth and University of Maryland Professor Laura Dugan widened the scope of the data collection process to include all government actions aimed at constituent populations from which terrorist groups emerge. The pilot case, Israel, was released in 2012.
Download GATE-Israel: .zip file with Stata 11 and .xls files of monthly data from 1987-2004, plus a .pdf file containing replication commands.
At Korbel, project staff will continue to collect, code, and clean data for a number of additional cases, which will be completed by 2015:
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The project is supported by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence at the University of Maryland.
Related Publications
- Laura Dugan and Erica Chenoweth, “Moving Beyond Deterrence" Social Science Space, September 11, 2012
- Laura Dugan and Erica Chenoweth, “Moving Beyond Deterrence: The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel,” American Sociological Review, Vol. 77, No. 4 (August 2012).
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Erica Chenoweth and Laura Dugan, “Carrots, Not Sticks,” PoliticalViolence@aGlance, August 20, 2012.
