Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227994 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/20/016
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The hypotheses are that the following are associated with comparatively higher levels of persistence in political terror and political instability: regions with predominantly low income countries (Hypothesis 1); landlockedness (Hypothesis 2); Christian-orientation (Hypothesis 3); French civil law (Hypothesis 4) and Low income (Hypothesis 5). The tested hypotheses are largely invalid. Only Hypothesis 5 and Hypothesis 2 are robustly investigated in the light of concerns about instrument proliferation. Hypothesis 2 is valid for political terror but not for political instability while Hypothesis 5 is neither valid for political instability nor for political terror.
Subjects: 
political instability
political terror
economic development
comparative studies
JEL: 
D74
H56
N40
O10
O57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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