Abstract

ALVES, Helena Lins et al. Compared institutional analysis among weak States. Anál. Social [online]. 2016, n.219, pp.432-456. ISSN 0003-2573.

This article seeks to create a State failure indicator. The methodology combines descriptive and multivariate statistics to analyze the databases Quality of Government Institute and the Earth Policy Institute. The results suggest that: (1) the independence of the judiciary is the variable that contributes the least to the creation of a State failure indicator; (2) cluster analysis classified 17 countries as collapsed states, Somalia is the most extreme case; and (3) ethnic fragmentation and uneven economic development show statistically significant variation between clusters.

Keywords : failed states; institutional performance; security; factor analysis; clusters analysis.

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