Arbeitspapier
Corruption and Political Stability: Does the Youth Bulge Matter?
This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries with a relatively large youth population. Using panel data covering the 2002-2012 period for more than 100 countries, we find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political stability. Corruption is a destabilizing factor for political systems when the share of the youth population in the adult population exceeds a threshold level of approximately 19%. The negative interaction term is robust, controlling for country and year fixed effects, a set of control variables that may affect internal political stability, an alternative operationalization of youth bulge, and a dynamic panel estimation method.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5890
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
Institutions and the Macroeconomy
National Security and War
Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
youth bulge
political stability
corruption
Witthuhn, Stefan
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
- Witthuhn, Stefan
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2016