Draining the Swamp: Democracy Promotion, State Failure, and Terrorism in 19 Middle Eastern Countries

Piazza, James A.

doi:10.1080/10576100701329576

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“…Emphasis is laid on stable autocracies because terrorism cannot be controlled by failing and failed states (Lai 2007;Piazza 2008a). This narrative is in accordance with Schmid (1992); Eubank and Weinberg (1994); Drakos and Gofas (2006) and Piazza (2007). On the contrary, theories of political access (Eyerman 1998) posit that good governance and strong democracies should be comparatively more immune to terrorism relative to non-democracies.…”

Section: Theoretical Underpinningssupporting

confidence: 62%

“…From an empirical perspective, many studies have documented (Lee 2013) and established the positive nexus between democracy and transnational terrorism Weinberg 1994, 2001;Piazza 2007Piazza , 2008bWeinberg and Eubank 1998). Chenoweth (2010) has argued that good governance with democratic competition can stimulate terrorist organisations to resort to violence.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This includes both theoretical (Schmid 1992;Eubank and Weinberg 1994;Drakos and Gofas 2006;Piazza 2007) and empirical Weinberg 1994, 2001;Weinberg and Eubank 1998;Piazza 2007Piazza , 2008bChenoweth 2010) literatures. On the other hand, the findings accord with the stream of literature on the positive rewards of governance in mitigating terrorism activities, namely: theories of political access (Eyerman 1998) and empirical literature from perspectives of the rule of law (Choi 2010) and independence of the judiciary (Findley and Young 2011).…”

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Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

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This study assesses government mechanisms in the fight against terrorism with particular emphasis on the bundling and unbundling of ten governance dynamics. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 53 African countries for period 1998-2012 and GeneralizedMethod of Moments. The following findings are established. First, for the most part, political governance and its constituents respectively have negative effects on all terrorism dynamics, with the following consistent increasing order of negative magnitude: unclear terrorism, transnational terrorism, domestic terrorism and total terrorism. Second, overwhelmingly for economic and institutional governances, the governance dynamics and their constituent components affect terrorism negatively, with the magnitude on domestic terrorism consistently higher than that on transnational terrorism. Third, for most specifications, the effect of general governance is consistently negative on terrorism variables.Theoretical and practical policy implications are discussed.

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“…Similar results pointing at negative effects of higher income on terrorism production are found, e.g., in Lai (2007) and Blomberg and Hess (2008). However, for the Islamic world our findings are not in line with Piazza (2007) who does not find that economic development is significantly associated with terrorism. Interestingly, Lai (2007) also documents a positive effect of income on terrorism production in the simple specification, while finding a negative one when using a quadratic specification.…”

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The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism

Freytag

Krüger

Meierrieks

et al. 2011

European Journal of Political Economy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Abstract:As a prerequisite of an appropriate anti-terror strategy, it is indispensable to assess the underlying causes of terror. We examine social and economic conditions in the country of origin of terrorist attacks, claiming that low opportunity costs of terror, e.g., approximated by slow growth and poor institutions raise the likelihood of terror and the willingness in the population to support terror. Using a negative binomial regression model, we are able to show that unfortunate socio-economic conditions in a country are likely to reduce the opportunity costs of potential terrorists and increase the number of terrorist attacks originating from a specific country. Interestingly, this effect is particularly relevant after a certain level of development has been reached. We therefore distinguish between several broad country groups, namely the OECD, Europe and Islamic countries.JEL classification: P16, F15, C25

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“…Overall, these conjectures are supported by the available evidence. Countries with internal conflicts experience and produce more terrorism than other countries (e.g., Campos and Gassebner 2009;Piazza 2007;2008a;). The evidence for interstate conflicts and wars points in the same direction although the evidence is somewhat weaker (e.g., Braithwaite and Li 2007;Dreher and Fischer 2010;Koch and Cranmer 2007;Piazza 2008a;Walsh and Piazza 2010).…”

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

2011

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. 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 effect of 65 proposed correlates. Evaluating around 13.4 million regressions, we find 18 variables to be robustly associated with the number of incidents occurring in a given country-year, 15 variables with attacks against citizens from a particular country in a given year, and six variables with attacks perpetrated by citizens of a particular country in a given year. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayJEL-Code: D740, F510, F520, H560, K420.

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Draining the Swamp: Democracy Promotion, State Failure, and Terrorism in 19 Middle Eastern Countries

Cited by 129 publications

References 23 publications

Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism

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

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