On the origin of domestic and international terrorism

Kis‐Katos, Krisztina; Liebert, Helge; Schulze, Günther G.

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2011.02.002

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“…Terrorist organizations build over time, which makes current levels of terrorism a function of past terrorist activity. 52 To capture history of terrorism, the variable measures the average number of terrorist incidents in a given country for each of the previous years in the period under observation. Population is measured as the natural logarithm of the sample country's population from Version 5.0 of Gleditsch's expanded data.…”

Section: Multivariate Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

State Legitimacy and Terrorism

Masters

Hoen

2012

Democracy and Security

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Studies that focus on the causes of terrorism often overlook the issue of legitimacy. Ehud Sprinzak first spoke about the relationship between legitimacy and terrorism to explain why mobilized groups transition from political opposition movements to terrorism. This study advances upon this analysis by assessing the relationship between a state's legitimacy and the occurrence of domestic terrorism. The data suggest that legitimacy is a robust predictor of terrorism and merits further investigation as a causal variable.

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Section: Multivariate Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

State Legitimacy and Terrorism

Masters

Hoen

2012

Democracy and Security

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“…13 Similar results have been reported by Jackson and Reiter, 14 Campos and Gassebner, 15 and Kis-Katos, Liebert and Schulze. 16 Alongside this research, political scientists have in recent years begun to develop models on the relationship between democratic regime type and the levels of domestic terrorism. 17 Sociological Terrorist Research Of course, this institutionalist focus does not imply that other social factors such as the levels of urbanisation and a large youth population have proved to be unimportant factors 18 or that economic conditions can be discounted.…”

Section: Institutional Terrorism Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestic Terrorism and Democratic Regime Types

Qvortrup¹,

Lijphart²

2013

Civil Wars

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Using logistic regression on the 36 democracies studied in Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy, we find statistically significant correlations between the index of consensus democracy and a higher incidence of fatal domestic terror incidents in the period 1985 -2010. We further find that the risk of fatal terrorist attacks is almost six times higher in majoritarian democracies than in their consensus counterparts, and that this indicator is stronger than factors such as economic development and a large youth population and levels of urbanisation. set off bombs in central London on 7 July 2005. In the aftermath of the atrocities, one question was asked: why did citizens kill fellow citizens in terror attacks? This question is the focus of this paper. Excluding international terrorism (foreigners perpetrating acts against citizens of another country, such as the 9/11 attacks), the paper seeks to understand the factors behind mass atrocities perpetrated by domestic -or 'home grown' -terrorists. The main hypothesis of the paper is a refinement of the thesis that consensus democracies are less likely to suffer terrorist attacks as marginalised groups of citizens are more likely to influence political decisions in countries with coalition governments, multiparty systems and the like. BACKGROUND

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“…Most studies find, for example, that the socio-economic development of a country does not significantly affect terrorism. A case in point is the study by Kis-Katos et al (2011) providing evidence that terrorism is not rooted in economic deprivation. High levels of unemployment do however help terrorist organizations to recruit better educated suicide terrorists who are able to attack more valuable targets (Benmelech et al 2012).…”

Section: Terrorism In Generalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Suicide attacks and religious cleavages

2016

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Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious conflicts. We distinguish between two kinds of religious cleavages: cleavages at the macro level between the stake holders in violent conflicts and cleavages at the micro or battle field level between the actual perpetrators and victims of suicide attacks. Our results do not indicate that religious cleavages are an important precondition for the incidence of suicide attacks.JEL Classification: Z12, D74, H56, F51

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On the origin of domestic and international terrorism

Cited by 105 publications

References 41 publications

State Legitimacy and Terrorism

State Legitimacy and Terrorism

Domestic Terrorism and Democratic Regime Types

Suicide attacks and religious cleavages

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