 Determining the ideological orientation of terrorist organisations: the effects of government repression and organised crimeKjell Hausken and Dipak K. Gupta International Journal of Public Policy, 2016, vol. 12, issue 1/2, 71-97 Abstract: The paper develops a model about the coalition between terrorism and crime. An organisation can get funded by a benefactor which enables focusing on terrorist objectives, or funded by criminal mercenaries which decrease the terrorist organisation's ideological purity. We show how a balance is struck between these two concerns. We support empirically the two hypotheses that terrorist organisations' ideological orientation depends positively on steady funding by a benefactor and on the government's ability to impose sanctions on their activities. Otherwise terrorist organisations transform into criminal organisations. A terrorist organisation altruistically provides public goods for the community. A criminal organisation, however, provides private goods for itself. We offer examples of organisations retaining their terrorist ideology, and organisations transforming into criminal organisations. Keywords: terrorist organisations; organised crime; terrorism theory; terrorist motivation; ideologues; criminal mercenaries; capital funding; ideological orientation; government repression; benefactor funding; ideological purity; terrorist ideology; criminal organisations; government sanctions. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijpubp:v:12:y:2016:i:1/2:p:71-97 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Public Policy from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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