Does Democracy Promote or Reduce Transnational Terrorist Incidents?

Li, Quan

doi:10.1177/0022002704272830

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“…On the other hand, the findings accord with the stream of literature on the positive rewards of governance in mitigating terrorism activities, namely: theories of political access (Eyerman 1998) and empirical literature from perspectives of the rule of law (Choi 2010) and independence of the judiciary (Findley and Young 2011). As a point of synthesis, in the light of Li (2005), competing effects of good governance may not be apparent because: government constraints are not resulting in political deadlocks from checks and balances on the one hand and political participation reduces transnational terrorism on the other hand.…”

Section: 1 Nexus With the Literaturesupporting

confidence: 73%

“…It follows that good governance institutions could also provide an enabling environment for aggrieved citizens to support or resort to terrorism as means to conflict resolution (Li 2005).…”

Section: Theoretical Underpinningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, a positive nexus between political competition and terrorism can be expected. According to Li (2005) relationships imply that good governance is associated with lower levels of terrorism and vice-versa. An observation that is particularly striking is the relationship between political stability and terrorism.…”

Section: Theoretical Underpinningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is a strand which posits that fundamental features of good governance like, civil society, democratic political systems, political participation and knowledge economy, can reduce resentment toward the State and hence, mitigate the likelihood of terrorist organizations recruiting extremists (Li 2005;Windsor 2003). On the contrary, another strand argues that good governance may not be useful in mitigating terrorism because the interests of terrorists' organizations are not represented in government institutions of democratic politics (Gause 2005).…”

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Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

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This study assesses government mechanisms in the fight against terrorism with particular emphasis on the bundling and unbundling of ten governance dynamics. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 53 African countries for period 1998-2012 and GeneralizedMethod of Moments. The following findings are established. First, for the most part, political governance and its constituents respectively have negative effects on all terrorism dynamics, with the following consistent increasing order of negative magnitude: unclear terrorism, transnational terrorism, domestic terrorism and total terrorism. Second, overwhelmingly for economic and institutional governances, the governance dynamics and their constituent components affect terrorism negatively, with the magnitude on domestic terrorism consistently higher than that on transnational terrorism. Third, for most specifications, the effect of general governance is consistently negative on terrorism variables.Theoretical and practical policy implications are discussed.

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Section: 1 Nexus With the Literaturesupporting

confidence: 73%

“…It follows that good governance institutions could also provide an enabling environment for aggrieved citizens to support or resort to terrorism as means to conflict resolution (Li 2005).…”

Section: Theoretical Underpinningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Underpinningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

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“…The advantage in financial development established by Beck et al (2013) has been confirmed within the frameworks educational performance and economic growth by Agbor (2015). In essence, the logic underpinning this classification is that, the institutional web of formal rules, informal norms and enforcement characteristics within a legal system influence how terrorism is fought by means of institutional regimes and government quality (Li, 2005;Choi, 2010;Lee et al, 2013). Classification of countries within this category is based on information from La Porta et al (2008, p. 289).…”

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Fighting terrorism in Africa: Benchmarking policy harmonization

Asongu

Tchamyou

Minkoua

et al. 2018

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

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This study assesses the feasibility of policy harmonization in the fight against terrorism in 53African countries with data for the period 1980-2012. Four terrorism variables are used, namely: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism dynamics. The empirical evidence is based on absolute beta catch-up and sigma convergence estimation techniques. There is substantial absence of catch-up. The lowest rate of convergence in terrorism is in landlocked countries for regressions pertaining to unclear terrorism (3.43% per annum for 174.9 years) while the highest rate of convergence is in upper-middle-income countries in domestic terrorism regressions (15.33% per annum for 39.13 years). After comparing results from the two estimation techniques, it is apparent that in the contemporary era, countries with low levels of terrorism are not catching-up their counterparts with high levels of terrorism. As a policy implication, whereas some common policies may be feasibly adopted for the fight against terrorism, the findings based on the last periodic phase (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) are indicative that country-specific policies would better pay-off in the fight against terrorism than blanket common policies. Some suggestions of measures in fighting transnational terrorism have been discussed in the light of an anticipated surge in cross-national terrorism incidences in the coming years.

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Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks

Kingma

Cramer

Chenoweth

2015

Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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We review the current literature on why democracies experience terrorist attacks. Noting that most of these studies were based on data that ended in 2004, we update the data and analyze regime type and terrorist attacks through 2012. We identify a key trend: 2009 appears to have been a watershed year, where terrorist attacks began to occur more often in failed states and countries under military occupation than in democratic ones. Most strikingly, we find that autocratic regimes have experienced a modest increase in terrorist attacks, whereas democracies have experienced a generalized decrease. We then review the literature on terrorism in autocratic regimes, which is mainly focused on explaining variation in terrorist attack patterns across autocratic regimes with different capacities for coercion and co‐optation and different sensitivities to audience costs. We conclude by highlighting some of the research and policy implications on regime type and terrorism.

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Does Democracy Promote or Reduce Transnational Terrorist Incidents?

Cited by 515 publications

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Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

Fighting terrorism in Africa: Benchmarking policy harmonization

Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks

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