A note on the effectiveness of national anti-terrorist policies. Evidence from ETA
- Barros, Carlos P.
- Gil Alaña, Luis Alberiko
Year of publication: 2009
Issue: 10
Type: Working paper
Abstract
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.