SIGN IN
Email
This field is required Password This field is required Sign in
Remember me
Forgot ID or Password?
|
||
The 'Peer-Effect' in Counterterrorist PoliciesEric NeumayerLondon School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Thomas PluemperVienna University of Economics and Business - Department of Socioeconomics; University of Essex - Department of Government Mariaelisa EpifanioUniversity of Essex - Department of Government 2012 International Organization, 69 (1), 2014, pp. 209-232 Abstract: Existing accounts of counterterrorist policies posit that defensively oriented measures create negative externalities and result in regulatory competition inducing governments to increasingly tighten their policies. We argue that rather than causing an unconditional global ‘race to the top,’ spatial dependence in counterterrorist policies is limited to within groups of countries exposed to a similar level of threat from international terrorism. Countries strongly differ in their propensity to become the target of an international terror attack and governments can safely ignore counterterrorist policies enacted by countries outside their ‘peer group,’ but must pay attention to measures undertaken by their peers. We test various predictions derived from our theory in an empirical analysis of counterterrorist regulations in 20 Western developed country democracies over the period 2001 to 2008.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 39 Date posted: July 15, 2012 ; Last revised: December 4, 2013Suggested CitationContact Information
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
