just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all … terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as …

This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … – with respect to the aims of terrorism as well as the means to attain them – and reducing the information bias – with …

A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in … types of ideologically or ethnically motivated terrorism make it plausible that they respond differently to specific social … strength) or nationalist-separatist terrorism (e.g., ethnic polarization, non-violent protest). However, both types of …

The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish … terror. We analyze determinants of domestic and international terrorism, for target and origin using the Global Terrorism …

-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … insurance), ideology is the most important determinant of public opinion, while measures of self-interest are the least …