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Fiscal policy, the military, and political stability in iberoamerica
Author(s) -
Cuzán Alfred G.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830310403
Subject(s) - politics , stability (learning theory) , government (linguistics) , political stability , economics , mathematical economics , fiscal policy , positive economics , political science , macroeconomics , computer science , law , philosophy , linguistics , machine learning
This article deals with decision making in systems at the level of the society. An earlier paper published in Behavioral Science (Heggen & Cuzán, 1981) argued that government could be reduced to a firm whose behavior is consistent with the laws of microeconomics. This paper builds on that and related articles by Cuzán and Heggen. Several models of political stability in Iberoamerica are developed and tested. Their essential variables are fiscal, military, and electoral. These variables are related in ways that are consistent with Ashby's findings concerning stable systems.