Open AccessEconomic Growth as a Factor of Political Stability
Author(s) -
A O Yaroslavtseva
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
vestnik rossijskogo universiteta družby narodov. seriâ politologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2313-1446
pISSN - 2313-1438
DOI - 10.22363/2313-1438-2015-4-109-116
Subject(s) - panacea (medicine) , politics , ambivalence , economics , economic system , state (computer science) , economic stability , stability (learning theory) , principal (computer security) , political stability , positive economics , political economy , development economics , political science , macroeconomics , law , social psychology , psychology , mathematics , computer science , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , algorithm , machine learning , operating system
The article analyzes actual problems of the impact of economic growth on the political stability of different state. The author shows that despite the undoubted correlation of the level of economic development and political stability, economic growth by itself is not a panacea for destabilization risks because of the effects of inflated expectations and transformations of social consciousness. The author argues that the impact of economic growth on political stability is largely ambivalent. On the basis of “Tocqueville's law” and the range of theories of “relative deprivation”, the author makes a conclusion about the principal limitations of predictive and interpretive capabilities of economic indicators (primarily economic growth) for the analysis of political stability.