Determining the ideological orientation of terrorist organisations: the effects of government repression and organised crime
by Kjell Hausken; Dipak K. Gupta
International Journal of Public Policy (IJPP), Vol. 12, No. 1/2, 2016

Abstract: The paper develops a model about the coalition between terrorism and crime. An organisation can get funded by a benefactor which enables focusing on terrorist objectives, or funded by criminal mercenaries which decrease the terrorist organisation's ideological purity. We show how a balance is struck between these two concerns. We support empirically the two hypotheses that terrorist organisations' ideological orientation depends positively on steady funding by a benefactor and on the government's ability to impose sanctions on their activities. Otherwise terrorist organisations transform into criminal organisations. A terrorist organisation altruistically provides public goods for the community. A criminal organisation, however, provides private goods for itself. We offer examples of organisations retaining their terrorist ideology, and organisations transforming into criminal organisations.

Online publication date: Tue, 08-Mar-2016

The full text of this article is only available to individual subscribers or to users at subscribing institutions.

 
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.

Pay per view:
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.

Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Public Policy (IJPP):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:

Username:        Password:          Forgotten your password?

Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.

If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com