When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

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 … pattern emerges for domestic and transnational terrorism alike. Peaks in the income-terrorism relationship differ by …

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and … open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

same conclusion, suggesting that the adverse effect of Islamist terrorism on women' rights is causal. Further emphasizing … population share) affects the position of women in society. Finally, we show that left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism … do not affect women's rights, which reinforces the notion that Islamist terrorism is singularly interested and effective …

This study investigates persistence of global terrorism in a panel of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The … terrorism is a decreasing function of income levels because it consistently increases from high income (through upper middle … income) to lower middle income countries. Second, compared to Christian-oriented countries, terrorism is more persistent in …

Behavioral reactions to terrorism may be displayed in different ways. While some individuals react by holding back on … analysis of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as a case study to uncover the relations between terrorism and philanthropic … approach relies on a unique panel dataset of 152,731 tax itemizer philanthropists and terrorism data from 1999 to 2011. The …

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 …

), terrorism, and external conflicts, including military spending. There are a number of key theoretical concerns on what counts as …

control variables and method of estimation …