International records / OpenAlex research

Stability, Democracy and Development

The number of military coups , civil wars, communal conflicts and other manifestations of political instability in the Third World has been too great not to attract a great deal of attention in the social sciences. But at first glance the failure of parliamentary politics seems not to fall into any particular pattern. Assuming for the moment military intervention to be an indicator of instability, rich and poor countries alike have succumbed. Senegal is relatively rich in African terms and has not experienced severe instability. Nigeria, also rich by African standards, has not been able to mai…