The charitable activities of terrorist organizations

Pierre-Emmanuel Ly

Public Choice, 2007, vol. 131, issue 1, 177-195

Abstract: Violent groups sometimes invest significant resources in social work, notably in the form of charities and NGOs. The present paper models a terrorist group's charities as a means to advertise its cause in order to raise popular support. The analysis explains how different types of organizations arise in equilibrium, depending on government policies. Then, the interaction between a purely terrorist group and an independent local NGO is examined. It is shown that a purely terrorist group always invests in more attacks than an integrated terrorist-charity organization. Furthermore, the latter may have more NGO activity than a separate local NGO. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007

Keywords: Terrorism; NGOs; Charities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-9112-2

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