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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (85428)11/10/2004 4:26:43 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 793868
 
Alberto Abadie's study finding no link between terror and poverty, but a positive link between terror and the lack of political freedom, which is mentioned in Taranto's Best of the Web you linked, follows. Too long and mathematical to copy here, but his summary follows:

ksgnotes1.harvard.edu

Using a new dataset on terrorist risk worldwide, I fail to find a signicant association between terrorism and economic variables such as income once the effect of other country characteristics is taken into account. Instrumental variables estimates, which are used to correct for reverse causation, produce the same qualitative results. The estimates suggest, however, that political freedom has a non-monotonic effect on terrorism. This result is consistent with the observed increase in terrorism for countries in transition from authoritarian regimes to democracies. In addition, the results show that certain geographic characteristics may favor the presence of terrorism.
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