AP Comparative Government and Politics / Unit 1: Political Systems, Regimes, and Governments
1.10 Political Stability
Notes
Stability comes from legitimacy, effective institutions and economic performance. Threats: ethnic or religious cleavages, corruption, economic crises, insurgency.
Practice
A threat to stability in Nigeria has been:
Boko Haram, regional tensions.
Strong, trusted institutions tend to:
Predictable rules.
An economic crisis can threaten stability by:
Performance failure.
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