Terrorism has become a focus of much political thought over the past few years, and with good reason, yet most quantitative studies of terrorism investigate the likelihood of a terrorist incident while ignoring the precursors to terrorist group formation. I examine cases of new terrorist group formations between the years 1968 and 1999 as a function of domestic demographic, geographic, governmental and societal factors. This is done by Poisson regression analysis, which determines the significance of the independent variables on a count of new international terrorist group formations per country year. The results indicate that higher levels of material government capability, high levels of political freedom, the availability of low-cost refuge, and a cultural tradition of terrorism all have a positive impact on the number of new terrorist group formations, while a higher degree of governmental durability has a negative impact.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc5107 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Worrell, Blake |
| Contributors | Greig, Michael, Enterline, Andrew J., Eshbaugh-Soha, Matthew |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Coverage | 1968-1999 |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Worrell, Blake, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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