Is Modernization the Engine of Political Instability?: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Time-Series Test of Causality
Description:
Traditional studies of the modernization-instability thesis have neglected the simultaneous influence of time and place on the relationship between modernization (social mobilization and political participation) and political instability, and the possible causal linkage between the two concepts. Empirical support for modernization-instability hypothesis will be obtained if and only if there is a strong positive correlation between modernization and political instability and the former causes th…
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Date:
August 1990
Creator:
Umezulike, Bedford Nwabueze
Partner:
UNT Libraries