Social Fractionalization, Political Instability, and the Size of Government
By Anthony M Annett. Social Science Research Network, 2000
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This paper explores the relationship between the degree of division or fractionalization of a country's population (along ethnolinguistic and religious dimensions) and both political instability and government consumption, using a neoclassical growth model. The principal idea is that greater fractionalization, proxying for the degree of conflict in society, leads to political instability, which in turn leads to higher government consumption aimed at placating the opposition. There is also a feedback mechanism whereby the higher consumption leads to less instability as government consumption reduces the risk of losing office. Empirical evidence based on panel estimation supports this hypothesis. Copyright 2002, International Monetary Fund
Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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- Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-national Comparison (2011, unknown): “Scholars have also identified ethnolinguistic fractionalization (ELF) as an important barrier to achieving political and economic stability (Easterly and Levine, 1997, Annet, 2001).”
- ETHNIC DIVERSITY, PUBLIC SPENDING, AND INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT FOR THE WELFARE STATE: A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE (2013, unknown): “In reaction to these criticisms, new data sets have been constructed by Annett (2001), Yeoh (2001), Posner (2002, 2004b), Alesina et al. (2003), Fearon (2003) and Selway (2011).”
- On the measurement of political instability and its impact on economic growth (2009, unknown): “Some authors acknowledge the problem of measurement error and combine various indicators in a single index using discriminant analysis (Gupta, 1990; Venieris and Gupta, 1986) or principal components analysis (e.g. Alesina and Perotti, 1996; Annett, 2001).”
- Knowledge Expectations in Mathematics Teacher Preparation Programs in South Korea and the United States: Towards International Dialogue (2011, background): “01, indicating extreme homogeneity (Annett, 2001).”
- The Persistence of Corruption and Regulatory Compliance Failures: Theory and Evidence (2004, unknown): “Stigler (1971), Pelzman (1976), and Becker (1983) are related seminal works on the political economy of policy determination.”