Regime age and terrorism: are new democracies prone to terrorism?

In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Volume 39, Issue 2, p. 246-263

Abstract

One of the earlier empirical studies of the relationship between. - regime type and terrorism published in International Interactions. - determined that while established democracies were significantly. - less likely to experience terrorist attacks than were nondemocratic. - countries, newly established democracies were highly vulnerable to. - terrorism. Subsequent empirical studies have routinely controlled. - for both regime type and age, but scholarly understanding of the. - effect of regime longevity on terrorism remains underdeveloped.. - This study revisits the relationship between terrorism and regime. - type and regime age using updated data, analytical techniques,. - and time-series and finds that while young democracies experience. - more terrorism than older democracies, dictatorships of any age. - experience less terrorism than any other type of regime. (International Interactions (London)/ FUB)