@article{ref1,
title="On ethnic conflict and the origins of transnational terrorism",
journal="Defence and peace economics",
year="2010",
author="Basuchoudhary, Atin and Shughart, William F.",
volume="21",
number="1",
pages="65-87",
abstract="Using the ITERATE dataset, we explore the origins of transnational terrorist activity, from 1982 through 1997, in 118 countries. We model terrorism, not as a function of a nation's ethnic, religious or linguistic fractionalization, but as an independent measure of perceived ethnic tensions. When we control for institutional quality, evidence that political rights and civil liberties mitigate the terrorism-producing effects of ethnic tensions exists only since 1990. Economic freedoms, on the other hand, robustly reduce the number of terrorist attacks originating in ethnically tense societies.<p />",
language="",
issn="1024-2694",
doi="10.1080/10242690902868343",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242690902868343"
}