scholarly journals Status Seeking in the Steppe

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Contessi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
External Action ◽  
State Building ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Middle Power ◽  
Status Seeking ◽  
Building Project

In its 25 years of existence as an independent state, Kazakhstan has had to invent an entire foreign policy. The process was driven by multiple objectives, for a large part aimed at ensuring the success of the broader state-building project: the preservation of national sovereignty, political stability, economic growth, and taking on international responsibilities. This strategy, shaped at once by the nature of the political regime and the constraints of the regional system, was inspired by the convergence of economic, political, and geopolitical considerations. Taking stock of Kazakhstan’s external action, this article finds unexpected correspondence with the key tenets of middle power doctrine, pointing to a widely unacknowledged reading of the country’s external action.

China COVID-19 outbreak will weaken Xi

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
The Political ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Security Services ◽  
State Security ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Intense Activity

Subject The political impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Significance The extreme measures the Communist Party has taken in response to the COVID-19 outbreak are partly designed to instill faith in its governing capacity among ordinary citizens, but inertia and slow decision-making at every level have revealed a gap between official rhetoric and reality. Impacts China will increasingly treat public health as a matter of state security; regulation and more involvement by senior officials will follow. The main risk to political stability is indirect, via the outbreak’s negative effect economic growth and employment. Despite signs of public outrage, protests are unlikely due to the risk of contamination and intense activity by the security services.

The Israeli Coalition System

1975 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Z. Paltiel
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
State Building ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
The Stability ◽  
State Of Israel

ANALYSTS OF THE ISRAELI POLITICAL SYSTEM HAVE COMMONLY attributed the stability of the polity to factors closely associated with the role played by the various Israeli parties in the state's economic and social life, and/or to the existence of a dominant, institutionalized state-building party. The consociational approach ought to help to clarify those factors which have maintained the stability of the coalition system which has governed the state of Israel since its establishment in 1948 and whose roots may be traced back as far as 1933 and even earlier.The consociational model and the theory of elite accommodation have been elaborated in an effort to explain the maintenance of continuing political stability in what at first glance would appear to be societies deeply divided along social, economic, ethnic, religious and ideological lines. Political stability in fragmented societies from this standpoint rests on the overarching commitment of the political elites to the preservation and maintenance of the system and their readiness to cooperate to this end.

scholarly journals An econometric study of the role of the political stability on the relationship between democracy and economic growth

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-206
Author(s):  
Nedra Baklouti ◽  
Younes Boujelbene
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Mena Countries ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the nexus between democracy and economic growth while taking into account the role of political stability, using dynamic panel data model estimated by means of the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) over the period 1998 to 2011 for 17 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. Our empirical results showed that there is a bidirectional causal relationship between democracy and economic growth. Moreover, it was found that the effect of democracy on economic growth depends on the political stability. The results also indicated that there is important complementarity between political stability and democracy. In fact, political stability is a key determinant variable of economic growth. Eventually, democracy and political stability, taken together, have a positive and statistically significant effect on economic growth. This finding suggests that, if accompanied by a stable political system, democracy can contribute to the economic growth of countries. Thus, the MENA governments should use policies to promote political stability in the region.

Does the political regime favor economic growth?

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-398
Author(s):  
Jorge Guadalupe-Lanas ◽  
Jorge Cruz-Cárdenas ◽  
Patricio Arévalo-Chávez ◽  
Andrés Palacio-Fierro
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
South American ◽  
Exogenous Shock ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Exogenous Shocks ◽  
Macroeconomic Fundamentals

Purpose This study aims to analyze the influence of political regime on economic growth. Design/methodology/approach The methodology was based on an inter-period comparison of the evolution of macroeconomic fundamentals in three different political regimes in Ecuador, a South American country. Findings The results showed that what determines the evolution of macroeconomic fundamentals is not the political regime that oversees it, but the size of a positive exogenous shock on the price of raw materials, which, by providing higher incomes, considerably increases the level of investment and net exports. However, the political regime does affect the distribution of income in sectors such as health and education. Originality/value As far as the authors know, this may be the first paper to explore the importance of a positive exogenous shock on a political regime for the case of primary-exporting Latin American economies, which are price takers subject to exogenous shocks.

Political Regimes, Economic Freedom, Institutions and Growth

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdiweli M. Ali ◽  
W. Mark Crain
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Civil Liberty ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The impact of political systems on economic growth cannot be understood solely in terms of a simple distinction between democratic and non-democratic regimes. The democratic character of the political regime may be irrelevant when economic freedom is assessed independently from political freedom and civil liberty. This paper uses newly constructed measures of economic freedom by Gwartney-Lawson-Block [1996]. The empirical results of this paper show that economic freedom contributes to economic growth irrespective of the nature of the political regime. The empirical results also indicate that the effect of democracy on economic growth is ambiguous at best. Nonetheless, democracy may have some effect on economic growth, operating indirectly through the investment channel.

‘Where Did the Other Heroes Go?’ Exalting the Polko National Guard Battalions in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 807-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
PEDRO SANTONI
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Other ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Building Project

In 1848 the moderado administration of General José Joaquín Herrera staged public ceremonies to honour the ‘polko’ national guardsmen who had died defending Mexico City during the recent war with the USA. Herrera's government attempted to use the rituals to alleviate the pain of defeat and bring together a divided nation, as well as to reorganise the national guard into a military force manned by the well-to-do that would help preserve political stability and social harmony. Herrera's state-building project ultimately failed because the ceremonies could not surmount the tensions that afflicted Mexico. In the long run, the inability to restructure the national guard allowed Mexican statesmen in the late 1800s to disband that military force and to diminish its status in national patriotic discourse.

scholarly journals Urban Development and the Making of Frontiers in/from Addis Ababa/Finfinne, Ethiopia

2022 ◽  
pp. 002190962110696
Author(s):  
Asebe Regassa Debelo ◽  
Teshome Emana Soboka
Keyword(s):  
Addis Ababa ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Political ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Sacred Spaces ◽  
Horizontal Expansion ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The City ◽  
Imperial State

Frontier making in Ethiopia has historical roots from the formation of the modern Ethiopian state in the late-19th century through wars of conquest. The conquest, which was inspired by political and economic motivations of the highland Christian kingdom, used the notion of a “civilizing mission”—civilizing the “backward” and “underdeveloped” people, and “underutilized” spaces—through imposition of an imperial state system and Orthodox Christianity. The foundation and horizontal expansion of Addis Ababa or Finfinne by displacing Indigenous inhabitants was part of the state building project under successive regimes. Over the last century and a half, the city has continued its unchecked expansion in a process involving multilayered actors whose interests overlapped in terms of grabbing the land they considered “underutilized.” More specifically, the last three decades evince commoditization of farmlands, grazing areas, and cultural and sacred spaces through land lease, which eventually dissolve existing customary systems, values, and practices. This paper critically analyzes the dynamics of frontier making in or from Addis Ababa or Finfinne, the political economy behind such unchecked frontier expansion and how it activated the power of resistance in 2014. The paper concludes that frontier making in or from Addis Ababa through dispossession of Oromo farmers has been part of the broader political establishment in Ethiopia and should be viewed within the same lens.

scholarly journals An Economic Impact of Political Instability: An Evidence from Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Abdul Rehman Nawaz ◽  
Usama Anwar ◽  
Fizza Aquil
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Political Tension

The economy of Pakistan has been badly damaged by the political instability in the country. Despite its enormous economic resources, Pakistan’s economy remained under dark shadows during most of its historical discourse. The economic indicators describe a significant relationship between politics and the economy of Pakistan. The following study, by reviewing previous studies, concludes that there is a negative relationship between political instability and economic growth in Pakistan from 2000 to 2019. Political instability flourished corruption and reduced the economic growth of the country. Moreover, a weak political system and government institutions could not resist the political tension in the country. The study finally concludes that political instability reduces economic growth in the country and economic growth reinforces political stability in the country.

The State Imperative

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
State Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Decline

This chapter argues that the pervasive sense of national decline among French public opinion can only be appreciated if it is judged against the elevated height of state self-esteem over previous centuries. Since the stabilization of the political regime in the second half of the twentieth century, the state has regressed as the overarching and unifying political framework, reversing its traditional standing. Now, many of the traditional state culture’s assumptions are no longer valid, creating a disjunction between expectations about what the state should do and what it can do. While those who speak on behalf of the state endeavor to sustain the myth of its sovereignty, their credibility has become increasingly implausible as the long process of state-building has been unwinding. Thus, France remains exceptional in terms of its norms and ideas about the state, even if it is no longer exceptional in terms of the behavior of the state.

The Level and Sources of Popular Support for China's Current Political Regime

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Chen ◽  
Yang Zhong ◽  
Jan William Hillard
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Authoritarian Government ◽  
High Level

This article assumes that whether the current Chinese authoritarian government can maintain socio-political stability during the potentially turbulent transition to the post-Deng Xiaoping era depends, at least in part, upon the level of popular support for the political regime (or regime legitimacy). Based on data derived from a sample survey of Beijing residents, this study seeks to address two fundamental questions: “To what extent does the current Chinese communist regime enjoy public support?” and “What are the possible sources of popular support for the political regime in contemporary China?” The findings in this study suggest that (1) the current communist regime still enjoys a moderately high level of popular support, and (2) popular support for the regime is most likely to be found among those who are optimistic about the country's economic and political futures, who are most satisfied with their life, who give high evaluations of incumbent policies, who often follow public affairs, and who are older. Based on these findings, the article concludes that the current communist regime seems to have a good chance of remaining legitimate among a majority of the Chinese people, while it is still facing serious challenges from its policy performance in some major public policy areas.

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