Abstract
The subject to which this essay is devoted concerns the relationship between conventional party politics and the formation of terrorist groups. Using several collections of aggregate data, this study examines the effect of changes in party politics from the 1960s to the 1970s on the appearances of terrorist groups in many nations. Changes in the number of parties in the system, fluctuations in their electoral performances and in their parliamentary representation from one decade to the other are linked to the number of terrorist groups active in different nations. A principal finding is that nations with many leftist parties have also tended to have many terrorist groups, irrespective of the latter's ideology or political outlook. The study maintains that understanding the dynamics of political party change in different nations provides insight into the origins of terrorist activity.
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