What are the causes of Political Stability?
Political stability is the most important attribute of a modern state, save for liberal democracy. In order to analyse and explain the phenomenon of political stability, this paper draws its statistical data from the Norris cross-national subset. However, it needs to be said that a complete analysis of all the factors affecting political stability can neither be collected nor analysed. The following hypothesis includes the variables which as this paper will show have the strongest effect on the dependent variable, ‘political stability’ (Kaufmann political stability 2002). Upfront, it needs to be said that there are a wide variety of variables that influence political stability, this paper, however, will choose the ones which are more common than for example the amount of police per 1000 citizens or similar variables. The hypothesis is that political stability mainly depends on the rule of law (kaufmann rule of law 2002), a high degree of autocracy or democracy (Democ²) and the amount o
