The Quality of Terror

By Ethan BUENO DE MESQUITA. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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2. V. Thelen
3. W. Enders
4. J. Azam
5. Xue Su
6. Friedrich Schneider
7. Kevin Siqueira
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Citations in the corpus

• Terrorists versus the Government (2006, background): “…forms: Diaspora support (e.g., funding for the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka and the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland), state sponsorship (e.g., Libya’s support of the downing of Pan Am flight 103), and outside financing (e.g., al-Qaida franchising of terrorist groups) (Byman et al. 2001).”
• Politics and the Suboptimal Provision of Counterterror (2007, background): “Two key substantive assumptions underlie this analysis+ First, I assume that government and voter preferences may partially diverge, in the sense that the government may engage in rent seeking—using counterterrorism resources for purposes other than enhancing security+ Second, I argue that there is…”
• Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs (2010, background): “[For formal models, see, for instance, Bueno de Mesquita (2005), Bueno de Mesquita and Dickson (2007), Lichbach (1987), Rosendorff and San-dler (2004), and Siqueira and Sandler (2007).]”
• The roles of foreign aid and education in the war on terror (2008, background): “The latter effect has been analyzed by Bueno de Mesquita (2005), as discussed in the introduction.”
• The socio-economic determinants of terrorism and political violence in Western Europe (1994–2007) (2011, background): “This argument has been introduced first by Lenin (1901) while theorizing about political agitation and it had been recently rediscovered by Krueger and Maleckova (2003) for political violence in Israel and Bueno de Mesquita (2005).”
• Rational Terrorists and Optimal Network Structure (2007, methodology): “Articles such as Arquilla, Ronfeldt, and Zanini (1999), Carley et al. (2003), and Rodriguez (2004) all discuss the possibility that the structures of terrorist groups evolve over time.”
• Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare (2009, unknown): “…of other types of conflict, see Becker (1967) on crime, Justino (2006) on communal riots and industrial disputes, Krueger & Malečková (2003) on suicide bombers, Bueno de Mesquita (2005) on individual participation in terrorist organizations and Tolman & Raphael (2000) on domestic violence.”
• “Draining the Swamp”: An Empirical Examination of the Production of International Terrorism, 1968—1998 (2007, background): “Bueno de Mesquita (2005) argues that terrorists are likely to seek out recruits with suitable skills in order to maximize the return on their investment in these 15Also, to examine whether the inclusion of the potentially endogeneous civil war variable is biasing the other estimates, Model 6 in…”