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aging water. He correctly highlights that institutions cease to be economically justified once they no longer support efficient outcomes. However, in order to portray ways to introduce competition Griffins discussion on the various water laws is not sufficient. Competition law or the pitfalls in the various water laws are at least as important, but are not touched at all.
Mark Oelmann, WIK, Bad Honnef, Germany
DOI 10.1007/s00712-006-0238-y
Enders, W., and Sandler, T.: The Political Economy of Terrorism. XIII, 292 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge New York, 2006. Hardcover, 40.00.
This book review provides a summary of the contents and contests some of the findings and methods used, especially by criticizing the missing consideration of viewpoints about security and terrorism different from those of the main actors in the war against terrorism, the U.S. and the U.K. The book was written by two American terrorism specialists, Walter Enders and Todd Sandler. Walter Enders is Professor for Economics and Finance at the University of Alabama. Todd Sandler is Professor for International Relations, Economics, and Law at the University of Southern California. The book aims to present an interdisciplinary political economy approach that combines economic methods with political analysis providing a qualitative and a quantitative investigation of terrorism. It intends to address college-level economics, political science, and public policy classes on terrorism. The main intention is to complement the literature by undertaking a rational-choice analysis of the behavior of terrorists and governments and by integrating game theory with statistical analysis of the incidence of terrorist events.
In the introductory part of the book the authors provide the theoretical background of the field of studies of terrorism. Besides giving various definitions of the main terms, the authors briefly explain the political approach mostly focused on empirical analysis and the economic approach which creates a theoretical behavioral model of terrorists and tests it with data or statistical methods. The political economy approach considers both approaches, at times taking each one alone and at times combining them.
One main part of the book deals with the dilemma of liberal democracies, the trade-off between security and civil freedoms. In countries with strong
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protection of civil liberties like the freedom of association and speech, terrorists have more...