A Note on Borders, Dyads and the Distribution of Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this note we use dyadic data to address the issue of the spread of political regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 to 2014. Dyadic data are binary relationship between countries and provide a data-rich environment for the study of international relations. We address the issue of correlation between these dyadic observations, which generates a cluster of dependent observations associated with that country. We find that borders matter, since often the effect of home- and foreign-grown variables have differentiated effects on democracy in one
country.
PONTAROLLO Nicola;
RICCIUTI Roberto;
2018-12-19
PEACE SCIENCE SOCIETY
JRC114924
1079-2457 (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC114924,
10.1515/peps-2018-0010 (online),
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