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In: Review of social economy: the journal for the Association for Social Economics, Volume 51, Issue 2, p. 201-216
ISSN: 1470-1162
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 703-704
ISSN: 1471-6380
In: Iranian studies, Volume 23, Issue 1-4, p. 146-148
ISSN: 1475-4819
In: Iranian studies, Volume 22, Issue 1, p. 105-106
ISSN: 1475-4819
In: Iranian studies, Volume 17, Issue 1, p. 133-135
ISSN: 1475-4819
In: Middle East Studies Association bulletin, Volume 17, Issue 1, p. 48-50
In: Middle East Studies Association bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 44-44
In: The Middle East journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, p. 31-43
ISSN: 0026-3141
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In: The Middle East journal, Volume 31, p. 31-43
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: Iranian studies, Volume 10, Issue 1-2, p. 100-103
ISSN: 1475-4819
In: Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 10, Issue 3, p. 56-57
ISSN: 2329-3225
In: The American economist: journal of the International Honor Society in Economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 16-23
ISSN: 2328-1235
In: Iranian studies, Volume 9, Issue 2-3, p. 205-208
ISSN: 1475-4819
In: The American economist: journal of the International Honor Society in Economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Volume 19, Issue 1, p. 23-31
ISSN: 2328-1235
In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Volume 17, Issue 2, p. 271-296
ISSN: 1552-8766
Some degree of political unrest and thus potential for violence exists in all societies at all times. In recent years, the causes of political unrest are attributed to one or more sociopsychological traits or geopolitical factors. Economic explanations are absent or lack modern quantitative approach. This study is an attempt to test some of the old and new theories of political unrest, and to extend, modify, and synthetize others in a unified theoretical framework. Thus, etiologically, universal economic factors in contrast to noneconomic, particular, or local factors are considered and methodologically a multifactor analysis is adopted. Theoretically, neither exclusivity nor primacy of economic factors is assumed; however, empirical results demonstrate their importance as main explanatory variables of political violence. In contrast to general belief, it is shown that political unrest is not a monotonically explained variable for the entire range of explanatory factors such as relative deprivation. Thus, the usefulness of concepts such as optimum level of income inequality, socioeconomic mobility, income growth rate, or the like are indicated.