Malyzhenkov Sergey

№ 4, 2017

• Share of Students in Total Poppulation and Socio-Political Destabilization. Quantitative Analysis

  The article continues a series of works of the authoring team headed by A.Korotayev about the sources of socio-political instability. The study confirmed that students as a social and age group can be considered a force that exerts a destabilizing effect on the socio-political situation in the country. The authors found statistically significant positive correlations between the share of students in the total population and important indicators of socio-political destabilization such as the intensity of general strikes, riots and especially anti-government demonstrations. At the same time, the revealed negative correlation between the proportion of students in the population and the intensity of coups and coup attempts indicates that the growing number of students may play not only a destabilizing, but also, in a certain sense, a stabilizing role.

  DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2017-87-4-35-47

  Pages: 35-47