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Fighting Terrorism: Empirics on Policy Harmonization

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015

enforcement. The empirical evidence is based on 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Employed terrorism dynamics are … nationality. The paper is original by its contribution to the empirics of conflict resolution through decreasing cross …

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When is Foreign Aid Effective in Fighting Terrorism? Threshold Evidence

Asongu, Simplice A.; Ssozi, John - 2015

Building on previous literature, we assess when foreign aid is effective in fighting terrorism using quantile regressions on a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilteral, multilateral and total aid indicators are used whereas terrorism includes: domestic, transnational,...

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The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not?

Scartascini, Carlos; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...

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Political Institutions and Street Protests in Latin America

Machado, Fabiana; Scartascini, Carlos; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. This relationship is explored...

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Terrorism Risk and Democratic Preferences in Pakistan

Ur Rehman, Faiz; Vanin, Paolo - 2015

Beyond direct damages, terrorism creates fear and insecurity, potentially reducing support for democratic institutions if these are deemed inadequate to tackle the threat, and increasing support for military governments. To investigate this possibility, we use data from Pakistan, a country that...

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Crime and social media

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Orim, … - 2019

Purpose- The study complements the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the year 2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical...

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Homicide and social media: Global empirical evidence

Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019

This study investigates the relationship between social media and homicide in a cross section of 148 countries for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit and Quantile regressions. The findings from Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit regressions show a...

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The persistence of global terrorism

Asongu, Simplice - 2019

This study investigates persistence of global terrorism in a panel of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are established. First, persistence in terrorism is a decreasing function of income levels...

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Morality and conflict

Schmidt, Dorothee - 2005

In recent debates, morality or social norms have been proposed as an instrument to reduce conflict behavior. As the … an effective instrument to lower socially unwanted behavior and support the enforcement of property rights. If it cannot … discriminate between these different conflict efforts, strategic effects due to a one-sided increase in morality might actually …

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Lock, stock, and barrel: A comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror

Gassebner, Martin; Luechinger, Simon - 2011

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...

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