To Negotiate or Not to Negotiate: an Evaluation of Governments' Response to Hostage Events, 1967-1987 and the Determinants of Hostage Event Frequency
Description:
Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis is applied to a cross-national data set to test two hypotheses concerning governments' hard-line response against terrorism: do hard-line responses cause more damage vis a vis event outcome and is the hard-line approach a deterrent? Six national factors are included in this analysis: economic development, economic growth rate, democratic
development, leftist regime type, military regime type and British colonial legacy. Only the level of economic…
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Date:
December 1997
Creator:
Woodard, Paul B. (Paul Bonham)
Partner:
UNT Libraries