State history and political instability

The disadvantage of early state development

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21358024
AutoresTrung Viet Vu (0000-0002-9867-8068, Loughborough Business School Loughborough University Loughborough UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume76
Fascículo3
Páginas351-379
Data de publicação2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoKyklos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0023-5962 • E-ISSN: 1467-6435
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/kykl.12331
OpenAlexW4324381039
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas59

This article hypothesizes and empirically establishes that statehood experience, accumulated over a period of up to six millennia, lies at the deep roots of the spatial distribution of political instability across non‐European countries. Using the state history index measured between 3,500 BCE and 2000 CE, I consistently obtain precise estimates that long‐standing states outside Europe, relative to their newly established counterparts, are characterized by greater political uncertainty. I postulate that a very long duration of state experience impeded the transplantation of inclusive political institutions by European colonizers, which would eventually become central to shaping countries' ability to establish politically stable regimes outside Europe. The core findings place emphasis on the long‐term legacy of early state development for contemporary political instability

Disadvantage · Economics · Political economy · Political instability · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · State formation · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Religion and Society Interactions