@article{ref1,
title="Motivating operatives for suicide missions and conventional terrorist attacks",
journal="Journal of Theoretical Politics",
year="2014",
author="Arce, D.G. and Siqueira, K.",
volume="26",
number="4",
pages="677-695",
abstract="We investigate the problem of motivating terrorist operatives for suicide missions and conventional terrorist attacks when operatives have either self-interested or social preferences that are not observable by the terrorist organization. We characterize the screening mechanism for selecting operatives according to their social preferences and determine under what conditions a terrorist group will prefer to utilize suicide versus conventional tactics. For example, when operatives are intrinsically motivated and likely to be represented in the pool of potential recruits, a terrorist organization will be more likely to employ suicide attacks as its sole tactic of choice. © The Author(s) 2013.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0951-6298",
doi="10.1177/0951629813511711",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0951629813511711"
}