The recent proliferation of studies on terrorism has brought scholars from different fields and approaches to converge on this phenomenon. As a result, economists, social and political scientists have developed theories, evidence and, in a sense, even a peculiar jargon of their own. Starting...

We show that in contexts characterized by scarce civicness, opportunistic politicians can advantageously exploit the promise of low tax enforcement to win the elections, although at the cost of both higher public debt and a lower quality of the goods publicly provided. We offer a theoretical...