scholarly journals Political instability and political terror: Global evidence on persistence

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simplice A. Asongu ◽  
Joseph I. Uduji ◽  
Elda N. Okolo‐Obasi
Keyword(s):  
Political Instability ◽  
Political Terror ◽  
Global Evidence

scholarly journals Dynamic Determinants of Access to Weapons: Global Evidence

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 334-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simplice A. Asongu ◽  
Joseph Nnanna
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Method Of Moments ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Military Expenditure ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Perceptions Of Crime ◽  
Conflict Intensity ◽  
Global Evidence

This study investigates the determinants of and persistence in access to weapons using a global sample of 163 countries for the period 2010–2015. The empirical evidence is based on the generalized method of moments. Hysteresis in access to weapons is consistently more apparent in countries with below-median levels in access to weapons compared to their counterparts with above-median levels in access to weapons. The hysteresis hypothesis within this context is the propensity of past values of access to weapons to influence future values of access to weapons. Factors that consistently drive access to weapons are: perceptions of crime, criminality, conflict intensity, political instability, military expenditure, violent demonstrations and terrorism. The effects of these drivers are contingent on initial levels of access to weapons. Policy recommendations for managing access to weapons are discussed. JEL: H56, L64, K42, P50

‘THE TOWN, THE TOWN, GOOD PIT, HAS ASSES EARS!’: Unstable Audiences in Della Cruscan Poetic Conversation

Romanticism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-244
Author(s):  
Katie Holdway
Keyword(s):  
Political Instability ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
The Town

In his famously disparaging poetic retorts to the poetry of the British Della Cruscan movement, the Baviad and Mæviad, Tory satirist William Gifford made every effort to separate the readers of Della Cruscan poetry into two distinct audiences: Della Cruscan ‘writer-readers’ who read and actively responded to pieces written by other members of the coterie with poetry of their own, and the non-participating mass audience. According to Gifford, this latter audience – metonymized as ‘the Town’ in the Baviad – ignorantly follows the whims of fashion, absorbing Della Cruscan poetry, but never actually responding to it. Through an analysis of both Della Cruscan poetry and Gifford's retorts, this essay aims to re-establish the links between these two kinds of audiences. I will argue that Gifford's attempts to suppress these links stemmed from a deep-seated fear – fuelled by post-Revolutionary political instability – that the Della Cruscan coterie offered a platform whereby members of the mass reading audience could join their poetic conversations pseudonymously, and ultimately be granted a voice, regardless of their gender or political affiliations.

Conflict and political instability in Yemen and its impact on the Middle East

2019 ◽  
pp. 638
Author(s):  
Yathrib Khattab Mandell
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Regional Conflict ◽  
The Stability

The confect in the Yemeni in state and its internal repercussions and the tragedies suffered by the Yemeni people and the divisions and problems that have occurred and political in stability and its impact on the stability of the middle East was the talk of all thinkers and researchers as the internal conflict turned into a regional conflict intersecting and different objectives and interests between the conflicting forces on the middle East As a result the Yemeni arena has become a constant and politically unstable arena.

UNBUNDLING THE ROLES OF INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN CAPITAL IN DEVELOPMENT: A GLOBAL EVIDENCE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soner Gokten ◽  
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Furkan Baser ◽  
Pınar Okan Gokten ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Global Evidence

Elections and Political Instability: Ballots to Bullets, Voting to Violence?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin E. Goldsmith ◽  
Charles Robert Butcher ◽  
Dimitri Semenovich ◽  
Arcot Sowmya
Keyword(s):  
Political Instability
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