A Comment on the Power Law Relation Between Frequency and Severity of Terrorist Attacks

Autor:	Alvin M. Saperstein
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations Terrorism Management Monitoring Policy and Law Positive economics Psychology Relation (history of concept) Social psychology
Zdroj:	Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. 16
ISSN:	1554-8597
DOI:	10.2202/1554-8597.1200
Popis:	Richardson first pointed out the power-law relation between the occurrence of war-like events and the consequent casualties. More recently, attention has been paid to the observed power-law relation between the frequency of terrorist acts and the number of resulting casualties and attempts have been made to explain these observations by deriving them from a model of randomly aggregating and disaggregating terrorist groups. This comment points out a weakness in the model and offers a simple extension to eliminate it.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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