A Note on Borders, Dyads and the Distribution of Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicola Pontarollo and Roberto Ricciuti

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2018, vol. 24, issue 2, 8

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: democracy; dyadic data; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 D74 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1515/peps-2018-0010

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