A Note on the Effectiveness of National Anti-Terrorist Policies: Evidence from ETA

This article analyses the effectiveness of anti-terrorism policies implemented by the Spanish government to counteract ETA terrorist attacks. The aim is to investigate what the best policy is for counteracting terrorist groups: proactive political/ retaliatory deterrence policies or reactive political/retaliatory deterrence policies. Counting models are used and the results show that proactive political policies are the most effective.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Gil-Alana, Luís A. ; Barros, Carlos P.
Published in:	Conflict Management and Peace Science. - Peace Science Society (International). - Vol. 27.2010, 1, p. 28-46
Publisher:	Peace Science Society (International)
Subject:	deterrence policies \| effectiveness \| ETA \| national terrorism \| Poisson model \| Spain

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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