Authors
Joseph K Young, Laura Dugan
Publication date
2014/4/1
Journal
Perspectives on Terrorism
Volume
8
Issue
2
Pages
2-23
Publisher
TERRORISM RESEARCH INITIATIVE
Description
Why do terrorist groups endure? This question is relevant to scholars and policy makers alike. In the past, this issue has not been addressed in a systematic fashion. Recent work investigates this question using data on transnational groups and finds that factors associated with the home country can influence the group’s endurance. Applying the theory of outbidding to terrorist group survival, we argue that strategic competition among groups predicts group duration. Using the Global Terrorism Database, we develop a dataset using the terrorist group as the unit of analysis to model the duration of group activity and thus include the largest sample of groups yet. Controlling for previous explanations of both group duration and terrorism, we find a robust effect for the impact that group competition has on terrorist group survival.
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Scholar articles
JK Young, L Dugan - Perspectives on Terrorism, 2014
JK Young, L Dugan - … Studies Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA, 2010