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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?
Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754212
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Polarized education levels and civil war
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Jetter, Michael; … - 2016
polarization and test its predictive power in explaining the likelihood of civil conflict and civil war, analyzing 146 countries … (equivalent to over 93 percent of the world population) from 1950 to 2014. Our results produce strong evidence for a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581261
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Explaining inequality between countries : the declining role of political institutions
Hussey, Andrew; Jetter, Michael; McWilliam, Dianne - 2017
countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased … substantially (from 0.411 to 0.459). Specifically, the explanatory power of institutions fell rapidly from the late 1980s to the …, the explanatory power of geographical conditions has been rising. This phenomenon appears to be global and is unlikely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597855
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Terror per capita
Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017
Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602738
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On the relationship between trade openness and government size
Farhad, Mohammad; Jetter, Michael - 2019
(accounting for approximately 96 percent of world population) from 2000-2016 is consistent with this hypothesis. Exploring areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103413
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Communications technology and terrorism
Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2018
By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825226
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Landlockedness and economic development : analyzing subnational panel data and exploring mechanisms
Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; Stadelmann, David - 2017
This paper revisits the hypothesis that landlocked regions are systematically poorer than regions with ocean access, using panel data for 1,527 subnational regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014. This data structure allows us to exploit within-country-time variation only (e.g., regional variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750132