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Political Culture Congruence and Political Stability

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2012
The premise of the cultural congruence hypothesis is that the level of congruence between democratic values among the public and in political institutions of a country is an important indication of political stability: the greater the congruence, the greater the stability.
Tamir Sheafer, Shaul Shenhav
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Economic stabilization, conditionality, and political stability

International Organization, 1985
IMF conditionality is seldom so important that it dominates all other considerations for political stability. IMF stabilization programs often shift benefits from one group to another. They expose elites to charges of selling the sovereignty of their countries.
Henry S. Bienen, Mark Gersovitz
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On the Structure and Stability of Political Markets

Journal of Political Economy, 1977
This paper considers an organizational aspect of the market in which votes are exchanged for public-policy outcomes. Specifically, the effect on the stability and behavior of politicians of assigning the demanders of political products (i.e., voters) to geographic areas is addressed.
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Political Integration and Political Stability: A Hypothesis

World Politics, 1967
These notes are part of a study on the problem of political integration. My hypothesis is that the political system driving for integration maximizes its chances for achieving a high degree of integration and remaining stable, in spite of the short-run destabilizing effects of the drive for integration, if it is authoritarian, consensual, “identific ...
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Political Institutions and Political Stability

2002
In some of the eighteen European democracies analysed in Berg-Schlosser and Mitchell (2000) the political institutions such as legislatures, executives and party systems, responded to — and contained — the economic crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s; in others they failed.
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Dynamic Stability and Reform of Political Institutions [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
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The quest for political stability

2007
Abstract The fall of the Melbourne government in 1841 was a personal and political blow to the queen. Under Melbourne she had developed from an isolated, quietly rebellious child into an eager, imperious young woman. She had thoroughly established her independence from her mother and her mother’s agents: by 1841 she was beginning to ...
K D Reynolds, H C G Matthew
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On ‘the political economy of stabilization’

World Development, 1985
Abstract Joan Nelson (1984) includes Sri Lanka in the period 1977–1982 in a series of case studies of the factors affecting the political acceptability of stabilization and adjustment programs. This is misleading because, unlike the other countries dealt with, Sri Lanka was not faced with an economic crisis when it accepted large multilateral loans ...
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The Quest for Political Stability

Ethics, 1957
F ALL the purposes that political systems exist to serve, there is none more basic to their institutional vitality than the task of maintaining internal social stability. For, when political systems fail at the performance of this task, they do so at the risk of revolution and with peril to their own survival. This stabilizing function of government is
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A Definition of Political Stability

Comparative Politics, 1975
An attempt to define political stability must begin by clarifying the concepts of politics and political structure. Political behavior is any act by any member of a society that affects the distribution of the power to make decisions for that society. Political behavior is ubiquitous.
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