A note on the effectiveness of national anti-terrorist policies. Evidence from ETA

  1. Barros, Carlos P.
  2. Gil Alaña, Luis Alberiko
Revista:
Working Papers ( Universidad de Navarra. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales )

Año de publicación: 2009

Número: 10

Tipo: Documento de Trabajo

Resumen

This paper analyses the effectiveness of anti-terrorism policies implemented by the Spanish government to counteract ETA terrorist attacks. The aim is to investigate what the best policy is for counteracting terrorist groups: proactive political/retaliatory deterrence policies or reactive political/retaliatory deterrence policies. Counting models are used and the results show that proactive political policies are the most effective.