Political Terror Scale (PTS)
Jan 1, 2014
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The Political Terror Scale (PTS) is a data project measuring levels of political violence and terror experienced by countries each year, based on a 5-level “terror scale” originally developed by Freedom House. Daniel Arnon has been involved with the project since 2014 and currently serves as co-Executive Director, alongside Mark Gibney, Linda Cornett, Reed Wood, and Peter Haschke, producing annual country scores on state violations of personal integrity rights used widely across political science, economics, and policy research.
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Assistant Professor, School of Government and Public Policy
Daniel Arnon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the
University of Arizona and co-Executive Director of the Political Terror Scale (PTS). His research
examines human rights, repression, and conflict: why states and non-state actors resort to
violence, how the public perceives and responds to it, and how it is measured. He works at the
intersection of conflict studies, human rights measurement, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
drawing on experiments, observational data, geographic data, and archival research.