Power or progress: What terrorist group leaders really want
Date
2020-01-01
Authors
Fuller, Samantha
Major Professor
Advisor
Mark Nieman
Committee Member
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Altmetrics
Authors
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Organizational Unit
Journal Issue
Is Version Of
relationships.hasVersion
Series
Department
Political Science
Abstract
This paper examines how the different goals of terrorist group leaders affect their decision making calculus. This study uses a formal model and shows that terrorist group leaders who are more concerned with gaining concessions from the government are likely to use lower levels of violence. The empirical analysis echoes the results of the formal model and provides evidence for the external validity of the model. Taken together these results suggest that some of the variation in terrorist group lethality is due to variation in the terrorist group leaders' goals.
Comments
Description
Keywords
Citation
Source
Copyright
Fri May 01 00:00:00 UTC 2020