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Top 25 Developing Nations with Terrorism Incidents
How did developing economies with the largest number of terrorism incidents from 2000 to mid-2021 track in terms of per capita incomes and political rights and civil liberties?
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Civil Liberties and Social Structure
Governments use coercion to aggregate distributed information relevant to governmental objectives—from the prosecution of regime-stability threats to terrorism or epidemics. A cohesive social structure facilitates this task, as reliable information will often come from friends and acquaintances. A cohesive citizenry can more easily exercise collective action to resist such intrusions, however. We present an equilibrium theory where this tension mediates the joint determination of social structure and civil liberties. We show that segregation and unequal treatment sustain each other as ...