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Research from the U nited S tates suggests that the 9/11 terrorist attack increased trust in political institutions by creating a “rally effect.” In this research note we analyze E urobarometer data collected immediately before and after the M arch 11, 2004 terrorist attack in M adrid to replicate and extend previous findings from the U nited S tates. We report that, first, trust in different types of institutions (political, media, justice) increased significantly immediately after the M adrid terrorist attack; second, the effect of the attack varied systematically across different types of institutions; and, third, the effect was generally short‐lived. Our results suggest that the rally effect of terror on trust in institutions generalizes across national contexts but also that the effect differs across types of institutions.
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