Social capital and terrorism

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 363-380

  Helfstein, Scott ^a  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Norms; Organizational behavior; Political violence; Social capital; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899411577     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2013.763505     Document Type: Article

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