Does government decentralization reduce domestic terror? An empirical test

Axel Dreher and Justina A. V. Fischer

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 111, issue 3, 223-225

Abstract: Using a country panel of domestic terror attacks from 1998 to 2004, we empirically analyze the impact of government decentralization on terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces domestic terror, while political decentralization has no impact.

Keywords: Domestic; terrorism; Decentralization; Federalism; Autonomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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