Economic and Political Determinants of Terrorism in Selected European Countries
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://acta.mendelu.cz/68/6/1019/" target="_blank" >https://acta.mendelu.cz/68/6/1019/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun202068061019" target="_blank" >10.11118/actaun202068061019</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Economic and Political Determinants of Terrorism in Selected European Countries
Original language description
In this paper, we aim to assess the connection between terrorist attacks and socioeconomic and political indicators through an empirical study of selected 16 European countries. In order to reduce the dimension of the problem, factor analysis is applied in order to transform the indicator variables into factors. The countries are classified into clusters based on similarity of their economic and political indicator development, using loadings of the indicators onto the factors. For countries in each cluster, the connection of their political and socioeconomic indicators with terrorist attacks is then studied via correlation analysis of the attacks and the aforementioned factors. We propose two hypotheses – the hypothesis of opportunity costs, and the hypothesis of economic deprivation. For countries in each cluster, the hypotheses are examined with the use of correlation analysis. The results indicate that economic development affects the frequency of terrorist attacks in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Switzerland.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
ISSN
1211-8516
e-ISSN
2464-8310
Volume of the periodical
68
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
1019-1031
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85097941111