TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Motivating operatives for suicide missions and conventional terrorist attacks
JO  - Journal of Theoretical Politics
A1  - Arce, D.G.
A1  - Siqueira, K.
SP  - 677
EP  - 695
VL  - 26
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0951-6298
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0951629813511711
ID  - ref1
ER  -