Terrorist networks, support, and delegation

Public Choice

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 237-253

  Siqueira, Kevin ^a   Sandler, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Delegation; General terrorist organization; Network terrorism; Terrorism; Three stage game

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949775947     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-009-9487-y     Document Type: Article

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