Individualism and political instability

Ezcurra Orayen, Roberto

Individualism and political instability

dc.contributor.author	Ezcurra Orayen, Roberto
dc.contributor.department	Economía	es_ES
dc.contributor.department	Ekonomia	eu
dc.contributor.department	Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE	en
dc.date.accessioned	2024-12-12T17:19:18Z
dc.date.available	2024-12-12T17:19:18Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01-01
dc.date.updated	2024-12-12T17:08:03Z
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines the relationship between the individualism-collectivism dimension of culture and political instability using a dataset covering around 100 countries. To shed light on the causal effect of culture on political instability, the identification strategy exploits the variation in historical pathogen prevalence and the information provided by the genetic distance between countries. The results reveal that individualism has a negative and statistically significant impact on the degree of political instability, which means that this cultural trait contributes to making the political environment more stable. This finding is robust to the inclusion in the analysis of a substantial number of controls that may be correlated with both individualism and political instability, including other cultural dimensions. In fact, the relationship between individualism and political instability does not depend either on the specific measures used to quantify the level of individualism and political instability within the various countries or the estimation strategy adopted. The estimates also show that part of the observed effect of individualism is due to the impact of institutional quality, which acts as a transmission channel linking this cultural trait and political instability.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This research benefited from the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [project number PGC2018-093542-B-I00].
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dc.identifier.citation	Ezcurra, R. (2021) Individualism and political instability. European Journal of Political Economy, 66, 101959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101959.
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101959
dc.identifier.issn	0176-2680
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/52719
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartof	European Journal of Political Economy 66, 2021, 101959
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PGC2018-093542-B-I00/ES/
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101959
dc.rights	© 2020 Elsevier B.V. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Individualism	en
dc.subject	Collectivism	en
dc.subject	Political instability	en
dc.subject	Institutions	en
dc.title	Individualism and political instability	en
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