Terrorist incident counts tripled in one year due to counting changes

Evidence

As compared with the (upwardly revised) 208 incidents for 2003, the 2004 report enumerated a full 651 significant international terrorist incidents—a tripling of the count in a single year. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 853

Categorization

• XREF: This tripling without any real change in underlying violence is a textbook ‘measurement creating the phenomenon’ case - connects to how social problems get socially constructed through counting, echoing the earlier mugging example in Hall. — connects to: Methodological changes and the Iraq war jointly explain the jump in reported terrorist incidents — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 852; A new counterterrorism agency abandoned established statistics-reporting conventions — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 851; US terrorist attacks declined sharply from 1970 to 2011 — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 49
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 853

Broader Connections

• Methodological changes and the Iraq war jointly explain the jump in reported terrorist incidents #corroborates (0.95) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 852
• A new counterterrorism agency abandoned established statistics-reporting conventions #expands (0.86) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 851
• US terrorist attacks declined sharply from 1970 to 2011 #complicates (0.78) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 49