DO LESS-FREE COUNTRIES PRODUCE MORE TERRORISM?
Creator
Bartlett, Brian Christopher
Advisor
Christian, John T
Abstract
This thesis explored the link between the level of political and civil freedoms in a country and the number of individual terrorist acts produced by that country. Previous research of terrorism studied factors such as economics, political institutions, demographics, and social features as potential root causes, and often reached contradictory conclusions. A tobit regression analysis tested the hypothesis that, after controlling for a country's demographics and geography, less freedom leads to increased production of terrorism. The results established a statistically significant correlation between freedom and domestic, international, and overall terrorist acts. Geographic control variables tended to be more significant for domestic terrorism than for international terrorism; while fractionalization measures tended to be more significant for international terrorism than for domestic terrorism. The results demonstrate the need for better data on terrorism to improve and widen the analytical techniques available to future researchers, and strongly invite a closer examination of the role played by different types of fractionalization within a country.
Description
M.P.P.
Permanent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/558156Date Published
2010Subject
Type
Embargo Lift Date
2015-05-17
Publisher
Georgetown University
Extent
56 leaves
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