• DOI:10.1017/S0003055410000614
Corpus ID: 144032377

Is There a Trade-off between Security and Liberty? Executive Bias, Privacy Protections, and Terrorism Prevention

@article{Dragu2011IsTA,
  title={Is There a Trade-off between Security and Liberty? Executive Bias, Privacy Protections, and Terrorism Prevention},
  author={T. Dragu},
  journal={American Political Science Review},
  year={2011},
  volume={105},
  pages={64 - 78}
}

• T. Dragu
• Published 2011
• Political Science
• American Political Science Review

I develop a game-theoretic model of an interaction between an antiterrorist agency and a terrorist organization to analyze how the probability of a terrorist attack varies when the level of privacy protections changes. I derive two implications. First, privacy and security from terrorism need not be in conflict: when accounting for strategic interactions, reducing privacy protections does not necessarily increase security from terrorism. Second, and more important, the antiterrorist agency will… Expand

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