Does Democracy Promote or Reduce Transnational Terrorist Incidents?

By Quan Li. Transnational Terrorism, 2005

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This article studies the various mechanisms by which democracy affects transnational terrorism. New theoretical mechanisms are identified that either complement or encompass existing arguments. Different effects of democracy on transnational terrorism are assessed for a sample of about 119 countries from 1975 to 1997. Results show that democratic participation reduces transnational terrorist incidents in a country, while government constraints increase the number of those incidents, subsuming the effect of press freedom. The proportional representation system experiences fewer transnational terrorist incidents than either the majoritarian or the mixed system.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The Impact of Terrorism on Governance in African Countries (2017, background): “There is a branch of the literature which argues that some fundamental characteristics in good governance can reduce the likelihood of terrorism (or recruitment by terrorists’ organizations) by reducing resentment towards the State (Windsor, 2003; Li, 2005).”
Fighting terrorism in Africa: Benchmarking policy harmonization (2018, background): “…the logic underpinning this classification is that, the institutional web of formal rules, informal norms and enforcement characteristics within a legal system influence how terrorism is fought by means of institutional regimes and government quality (Li, 2005; Choi, 2010; Lee et al., 2013).”