This study provides a first attempt at building a multivariate model to explain terrorist activity by including six national factors proposed to have a relationship to the number of terrorist events occurring in a given nation and the number of terrorist incidents attributed to groups primarily identified with a given nation. These factors include rate of population growth, level of economic development, economic growth rate, level of democracy, presence of leftist regime type, and level of repression. After applying Ordinary Least Squares to these national factors in both a cross-sectional and a pooled cross-sectional time series analysis, only the level of democracy, the level of repression, and the lagged endogenous variables representing previous terrorist activity demonstrated strong and statistically significant relationships to the two dependent variables tested in both designs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc278590 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Wendel, Dierdre L. (Dierdre Lynelle) |
| Contributors | Poe, Steven C., Martinez-Ebers, Valerie, Clarke, Harold D. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vii, 88 leaves : ill., Text |
| Coverage | 1981-1987 |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Wendel, Dierdre L. (Dierdre Lynelle) |
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