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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism
European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 27, No. SUPPL. 1, Year 2011
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Prior research has concluded that socio-economic development does not significantly affect terrorism. We take an alternative view. First, we note that a country's socio-economic circumstances affect terrorists' behavior through terrorism's opportunity costs. We argue that this reasoning also holds for the case of supreme value terrorism. Then, we run a series of negative binomial regressions for 110 countries between 1971 and 2007 to test the hypothesis that poor socio-economic development is conducive to terrorism. We find that socio-economic variables indeed matter to terrorism, contrary to other results. Our findings imply that countries can benefit from economic development and growth in terms of a reduction in terrorism. © 2011.
Authors & Co-Authors
Freytag, Andreas
Germany, Jena
Friedrich-schiller-universität Jena
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Krüger, Jens J.
Germany, Darmstadt
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Meierrieks, Daniel
Germany, Paderborn
Universität Paderborn
Schneider, Friedrich Georg Georg
Austria, Linz
Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Citations: 308
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 5
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10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2011.06.009