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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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5890

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
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
Thema
demographic transition
youth bulge
political stability
corruption

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
Witthuhn, Stefan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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

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