Is Terrorism the "Poor Man's Patent"?: Evaluating the Causal Connection between Education, Poverty, and Political Violence.

The existing debate in the literature posits that there is no direct relationship between poverty, education, and support for terrorism. Krueger and Maleckova (2002) assert that most terrorist operatives have a higher level of education and better socio-e ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]