Rooted in Urban Poverty? Failed Modernization and Terrorism

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2012, vol. 18, issue 3, 2

Abstract: This contribution finds that urban (but not rural) poverty fuels domestic and anti-U.S. terrorism in 43 developing countries. It argues that urban poverty aids non-state groups which use terrorism as a means to capture rents and consolidate popular support.

Keywords: urban poverty; terrorism; anti-Americanism; clientelism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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