Motivating operatives for suicide missions and conventional terrorist attacks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6298314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel G Arce (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Daniel Arce (0000-0003-1702-4570), Kevin Siqueira (0000-0003-2026-1702, University of Texas at Dallas, USA) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 677-695 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Theoretical Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-6298 • E-ISSN: 1460-3667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0951629813511711 |
| OpenAlex | W2151431817 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 27 |
We investigate the problem of motivating terrorist operatives for suicide missions and conventional terrorist attacks when operatives have either self-interested or social preferences that are not observable by the terrorist organization. We characterize the screening mechanism for selecting operatives according to their social preferences and determine under what conditions a terrorist group will prefer to utilize suicide versus conventional tactics. For example, when operatives are intrinsically motivated and likely to be represented in the pool of potential recruits, a terrorist organization will be more likely to employ suicide attacks as its sole tactic of choice
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |