The political economy of freedom, democracy and transnational terrorism
By Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, M. Justesen, Robert Klemmensen. 2006
244 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods: The case of terrorism (2009, background): “Finally, according to cross-country studies, poverty does not increase terrorism risk, as assessed by an international risk agency (Abadie 2006) or reflected in the number of international terrorist attacks (Piazza 2006), nor do perpetrators predominantly stem from poor countries (Krueger and Laitin”
- The socio-economic determinants of terrorism and political violence in Western Europe (1994–2007) (2011, background): “Burgoon (2006) and Kurrild-Klitgaard et al. (2006) find a negative association between the openness of a country and the number of incidents in a sample of countries.”
- The Origins of Terrorism - Cross-Country Estimates on Socio-Economic Determinants of Terrorism (2011, methodology): “The decision to use a certain instrument itself is driven by rational calculus (Wintrobe 2006).”
- The roles of foreign aid and education in the war on terror (2008, background): “1 Kurrild-Klitgaard et al. (2006) confirm that democracies tend to be the target of terrorist attacks, with a quadratic effect reaching a maximum at very high levels of democracy.”
- Causal Linkages Between Domestic Terrorism and Economic Growth (2011, background): “…finds that short-run and long-run economic conditions do not matter strongly for terrorists’ attack decisions (Piazza, 2006; Drakos and Gofas, 2006; Kurrild-Klitgaard et al., 2006), or indicates that economically successful countries are more prone to terrorism (Tavares, 2004; Blomberg et al.,…”
- Economic growth and terrorism: domestic, international, and suicide (2015, background): “When Kurrild-Klitgaard et al. (2006) conduct a statistical analysis of the relationship between economic and political freedom and the occurrence of transnational terrorism from 1996 to 2002, they also report no causal linkage between economic growth and terrorism.”