Does Terrorism Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data
利用111个国家1982-2002年的面板数据，分析恐怖主义是否以及多大程度上影响政府对人权的尊重，发现恐怖主义显著但非剧烈地削弱了基本人权（如法外处决、政治监禁和酷刑），但对赋权权利无影响。
Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1982–2002, we employ two indexes that cover a wide range of human rights to empirically analyze whether and to what extent terrorism affects human rights. According to our results, terrorism significantly, but not dramatically, diminishes governments’ respect for basic human rights such as the absence of extrajudicial killings, political imprisonment, and torture. The result is robust to how we measure terrorist attacks, to the method of estimation, and to the choice of countries in our sample. However, we find no effect of terrorism on empowerment rights.