The Charitable Terrorist
State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10071836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Federico Masera (0000-0002-5907-8342, UNSW Sydney), Hasin Yousaf (0000-0002-4375-0755, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 7-8 |
| Pages | 1174-1207 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220027221079398 |
| OpenAlex | W4225792520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 43 |
Violent organizations are often providers of many social services in competition with the state. We provide evidence that these organizations use the provision of social services to gain support. This strategy is only effective when it fills the void left by a weak state. We show this by studying the provision of natural disaster relief by the Pakistani state and the Taliban. We first analyze the floods of 2010 that received an inadequate response from the government and show that support for the Taliban increased in the areas affected by the flood. These effects were concentrated in places where the Taliban likely provided help and where the state under-delivered. We then study the 2005 earthquake that instead received a swift government response and show that the Taliban lost support in the affected areas. Results cannot be explained by alternate mechanisms as anger against incumbents, political competition, electoral participation, and religiosity
Anger · Business · Competition (biology · Development economics · Economics · Flood myth · Geography · Government (linguistics · Natural disaster · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · State (computer science · Terrorism · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Ethnicity and Conflict
Religion, terrorism and public goods
Aid Under Fire
US Food Aid and Civil Conflict
Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict
Rain and the Democratic Window of Opportunity
Civil War
In Aid We Trust
Natural Disasters and Political Engagement
H ezbollah's S ocial J ihad
Doing Well by Doing Good
Welfare as Warfare
Economic impacts of the floods in Pakistan
The Emerging Social Contract
No Sign until the Burst of Fire
The Taliban Revival
Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
Acts of God? Religiosity and Natural Disasters Across Subnational World Districts
Pakistan in 2010
The Sicilian Mafia
What Explains Taxation by Resource-Rich Rebels? Evidence from the Islamic State in Syria
Faith or Doctrine? Religion and Support for Political Violence in Pakistan
States, Insurgents, and Wartime Political Orders
Islamists and Democracy
How Terrorism Spreads
Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict
A Typology of Rebel Political Institutional Arrangements
The Mind of the Terrorist
Rebel capability and strategic violence against civilians
Maritime Insurgency
Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy
Institutions, Civilian Resistance, and Wartime Social Order
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |