Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of control variables and method of estimation.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Dreher, Axel ; Fischer, Justina A.V.
Institutions:	CESifo
Subject:	terrorism \| decentralization \| federalism \| governance quality \| government effectiveness

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CESifo Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 2699
Classification:	D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances ; H40 - Publicly Provided Goods. General ; H70 - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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