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 … terror per capita. A larger share of Muslims in society is, if anything, associated with less terrorism. Similar conclusions …

compete over state rents, so a gain for one group is a loss for another, making terrorism of members of out-groups rational …. The rise of militant Islam can be attributed to high rates of urbanization in many Muslim countries in recent decades … already in power. Imams have an incentive to preach want audiences want to hear, so a mutated in-group version of Islam …