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The goal of this study is to explain causes of terrorism. This study suggests that terrorism can be due to, in specific … East. Overall, then, one of the causes of terrorism seems to be due to sociodemographic factors combined with psycho …
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Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi … publishers and that this coverage focuses on Islam and terror. Overall, and in contrast to previous work, we find terrorism is …
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A fundamental problem in social and political sciences is how to explain the root causes of terrorism. The vast … literature has analyzed several determinants of terrorism. However, the precise role of demographic factors for the origin and … evolution of terrorism in specific geoeconomic areas is hardly known. Results here show that population growth of the Middle …
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Navarre autonomous communities in Spain during 1986-2014. Our results show that terrorism had a negative and transitory effect …
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terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as …
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), that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more terrorism. Consistent with relative deprivation theory, we …We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 114 countries between 1985 and 2012. We provide … terrorism to voice dissent and achieve a redistribution of wealth. Furthermore, we provide evidence of an indirect effect of …
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When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …
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We examine the effect of class cleavages on terrorist activity by anarchist and leftist terrorist groups in 99 American, Asian and European countries over the 1860-1950 period. We find that higher levels of political exclusion of the poor, our main measure of class conflict, were associated with...
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