TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - On ethnic conflict and the origins of transnational terrorism
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Basuchoudhary, Atin
A1  - Shughart, William F.
SP  - 65
EP  - 87
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242690902868343
ID  - ref1
ER  -