This paper studies extremist behaviour, and its connection to authoritarianism. I divide extremists into two groups, leaders, who demand extremist acts such as assassinations, suicide terror or other forms of political violence from followers, who supply them. I assume that both the leaders of...

The basic point of the paper is that, under certain circumstances, groups which take extremist positions on issues tend also to use extremist methods such as terrorism and violence to pursue those goals. I assume that the leaders of extremist groups are rational, therefore, given their goals,...