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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 … Database and show that there have been major shifts in terror activity and composition over time. -- terrorism ; terror groups …
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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 … Database and show that there have been major shifts in terror activity and composition over time. -- terrorism ; terror groups …
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perpetrator ideology. Thus, alleviating poverty per se may first exacerbate terrorism, contrary to much of the proposed recipes …To better understand potential relationships between income and terrorism, we study data for 1,527 subnational regions … alternative specifications. The threat of terrorism systematically rises as low-income polities become richer, peaking at an …
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In the current literature, the primary determinants of terrorist attack casualty rates have been attributed to religious fundamentalism. While zealotry, martyrdom and the pursuit of salvation certainly empower religious fundamentalists with the liberty to decimate human targets, I argue that the...
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This contribution investigates the link between welfare policies and domestic terrorism for 15 Western European … increase the opportunity costs of terrorism. We investigate whether spending in certain policy fields translates into a … reduction of terrorism, and whether certain worlds of welfare capitalism [Esping-Andersen (1990)] are more resistant to the …
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