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Shall We Riot Too? The Geographical Neighbor Impact on Political Instability
Author(s) -
Grechyna Daryna
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
kyklos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-6435
pISSN - 0023-5962
DOI - 10.1111/kykl.12187
Subject(s) - political instability , instability , politics , identification (biology) , population , economics , economic geography , development economics , political science , sociology , demography , physics , law , mechanics , biology , botany
Summary This paper investigates the impact of regional political instability on the political instability of a country. Our identification strategy relies on the spatial nature of international relations. We use the characteristics of the neighbors’ neighbors as the instruments for the neighbors’ political instability and regional dummies to control for common regional shocks. We show that political instability in neighboring countries has a strong positive impact on a given country's political instability. The average of neighbors’ population size appears to be a significant mediating factor behind this relationship.