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Characteristics of TerrorismKaren PittelCESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) - Ifo Institute for Economic Research Dirk T. G. RübbelkeBasque Centre for Climate Change (BC3); Basque Government - Basque Foundation for Science (IKERBASQUE) April 1, 2011 Edward Elgar, HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS CONFLICT, 2011 Abstract: Individual terrorist are frequently behaving seemingly absurd, e.g. by carrying out suicide operations, while activities of the terrorist organizations as a whole often seem to be conducted in a very effective way. These facts caused many researchers to regard the leaders representing the organizations like rational entities, while the followers are supposed to be just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all involved agents. We demonstrate how these agents' behavior could be modeled, while taking into account options of the terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as the follower level can be derived.
Keywords: cognitive dissonance, joint production, Lancastrian characteristics approach, public goods, rationality, suicide attacks, terrorism JEL Classification: D74, D69 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: September 19, 2011 ; Last revised: October 20, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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