caa a22 4500 606168338 CHVBK 20210128100706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-015-0247-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-015-0247-x The UN Goldstone Report and retraction: an empirical investigation [Elektronische Daten] [Arye Hillman, Niklas Potrafke] The Goldstone Report is unique among United Nations reports in having been eventually repudiated by its principal author. The Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense against terror was influenced by countries' political institutions. Our results, using different measures of political institutions, reveal systematic differences in voting by democracies and autocracies: as an example, based on the Chief-in-Executive measure of political institutions, a country with the highest democracy score was some 55% points less likely to vote in favor of the second of the two UN Goldstone resolutions and some 55% points more likely to abstain than a country with the highest autocratic score. The differences between democracies and autocracies in willingness to initiate symmetric warfare are therefore also reflected in differences in sensitivities to loss of life and harm in asymmetric warfare, through broad support by democracies, but not by autocracies, for legitimacy of self-defense against state-supported or state-perpetrated terror. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 State-sponsored terror nationallicence Asymmetric warfare nationallicence UNGA voting nationallicence Political institutions nationallicence Israel nationallicence Expressive voting nationallicence Hillman Arye Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, 5290002, Ramat Gan, Israel aut Potrafke Niklas LMU Munich, 80539, Munich, Germany aut Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2015-06-01), 247-266 0048-5829 163:3-4<247 2015 163 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0247-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0247-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hillman Arye Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, 5290002, Ramat Gan, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Potrafke Niklas LMU Munich, 80539, Munich, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2015-06-01), 247-266 0048-5829 163:3-4<247 2015 163 11127