FEATURED | Can We Predict Political Uprisings?

Forecasting political unrest is a challenging task, especially in this era of post-truth and opinion polls.

By Mohammad Reza Farzanegan
Professor of Economics of the Middle East, University of Marburg

Image Attribute: Anti-government protests in Kiev, Ukraine, in January 2014, as seen as in this documentary by Evgeny Afineevsky. Credit Arturas Morozovas/Netflix Original

Image Attribute: Anti-government protests in Kiev, Ukraine, in January 2014, as seen as in this documentary by Evgeny Afineevsky. Credit Arturas Morozovas/Netflix Original

Forecasting political unrest is a challenging task, especially in this era of post-truth and opinion polls.

Several studies by economists such as Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler in 1998 and 2002 describe how economic indicators, such as slow income growth and natural resource dependence, can explain political upheaval. More specifically, low per capita income has been a significant trigger of civil unrest.

Economists James Fearon and David Laitin have also followed this hypothesis, showing how specific factors played an important role in Chad, Sudan and Somalia in outbreaks of political violence.

According to the International Country Risk Guide index, the internal political stability of Sudan fell by 15% in 2014, compared to the previous year. This decrease was after a reduction of its per capita income growth rate from 12% in 2012 to 2% in 2013.

By contrast, when the income per capita growth increased in 1997 compared to 1996, the score for political stability in Sudan increased by more than 100% in 1998. Political stability across any given year seems to be a function of income growth in the previous one.


When economics lie


But as the World Bank admitted, “economic indicators failed to predict Arab Spring”.

Usual economic performance indicators, such as gross domestic product, trade, foreign direct investment, showed higher economic development and globalization of the Arab Spring countries over a decade. Yet, in 2010, the region witnessed unprecedented uprisings that caused the collapse of regimes such as those in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.

Image Attribute: In Rabat, Morocco, youth celebrate the 2011 uprising in the region, asking for more rights. Reuters

Image Attribute: In Rabat, Morocco, youth celebrate the 2011 uprising in the region, asking for more rights. Reuters

In our 2016 studywe used data from more than 100 countries for the 1984–2012 period. We wanted to look at criteria other than economics to better understand the rise of political upheavals.

We found out and quantified how corruption is a destabilizing factor when youth (15-24 years old) exceeds 20% of adult population.

Let’s examine the two main components of the study: demographics and corruption.


Young and angry


The importance of demographics and its impact on political stability has been studied for years.


Several examples can be found throughout the early 2000s. Young people were particularly active in Yugoslavia’s Bulldozer Revolution, (2000), Georgia’s Rose Revolution (2003), the Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (2004), the Iranian Green Movement of the post-2009 presidential election, and finally during the Arab Spring (since 2011).

But a bulk of the population is being under 25 years old in a given country does not necessarily lead to revolution. It’s when leaders of such countries deceive and fail their younger citizens through systematic corruption, for instance, that the risk of upheaval is much higher.


Enter corruption


Political corruption allows non-democratic leaders to build political support through networks of dependency, extending the duration of their regimes.

A 2014 study by political scientists Natasha Neudorfer and Ulrike Theuerkauf, suggests the contrastability effects of corruption: the beneficiaries increase their income while a larger portion of the population feels the inequality as economic growth and investment stagnate. It particularly affects the youth population who are not yet inserted into the system and have fewer economic opportunities.

Autocratic corrupt states also allocate a larger portion of their budget to military and security forces, under-spending on education and health. This situation might stimulate youth adhesion to anti-establishment movements, including radical ones.

According to Nigerian scholar Freedom C. Onuoha, political corruption is behind the formation and durability of terrorist groups in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria. These groups succeeded in attracting the marginalized parts of the population that are mainly from the youth bulge.

But corruption alone, like age, is not creating political unrest. A combination of the right amount of youth within the overall population suffering from corruption is necessary.


The case of Iran


A good example is Iran. The country experienced one of the most significant political changes of the 20th century when the 1979 Islamic Revolution ended its monarchy and has been thriving on oil revenues since.

Oil revenue-dependency was less than 1% of total economy from 1970 to 1973. Substantial increase in oil prices from the mid-1970s led to a massive increase in the Iranian economy’s dependency on it – from 0.3% in 1973 to 31% in 1974 according to the World Bank.

Image Attribute: In 2009, youth protested for months in support of the reformist Mousavi, creating the ‘Green Movement’. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

Image Attribute: In 2009, youth protested for months in support of the reformist Mousavi, creating the ‘Green Movement’. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

Based on my calculations of the World Bank’s Health Nutrition and Population Statistics, the share of 15 to 24-year-olds among the overall adult population has been higher than 20% from 1960-2016 (with an exception of 19% in 2016).

For this time period, we observed a continuous increase in the youth bulge in Iran from 33% in 1970 to approximately 36% (one of the highest in Iran’s demographic history) in 1979 (World Bank Population Estimates and Projections, 2017).

With oil income growing along with a diversity of activities linked to its production and circulation, corruption – for which we do not have data before 1985 – has emerged as a way of life.

In 1997-98, the share of Iranians aged between 15 and 24 in the adult population reached 36% (World Bank Population Estimates and Projections, 2017). At the same time, Iranian politics experienced a significant change with the presidential election of Mohammad Khatami whose main support base was the youth.

Incidentally, we observed that Khatami’s government was one of the most factionalized period of politics in Iran with the frequent political crisis. In 2004,  The New York Times noted that:

During his tenure, President Khatami complained that ‘a crisis every nine days’ made it hard to get anything accomplished.

This did not lead to a revolution but civil unrest has regularly affected political life including in 2009. World Bank Population Estimates and Projections show that the share of youth in Iran will drop to 11% by 2050, reducing the political risk of demographics in the presence of corruption in the future.

Additional factors


Using cases such as the Iranian one, we tried to understand how corruption and youth could lead to crisis.

We also took into account other drivers of conflict such as inequality, economic growth, investment rate, inflation, government spending, military spending, oil rents, trade, education, fertility rate, and democracy.

We controlled for specific differences between the countries we studied, such as geography, geopolitical situation, cultural and historical heritage, and religion. International attention and intervention of external powers were also taken into account. And we included events such as the 2008 global financial crisis and the 2003 Iraq war.

Table 1 illustrates the marginal effect of corruption on internal stability at different levels of youth bulge. Mohammad Reza

Table 1 illustrates the marginal effect of corruption on internal stability at different levels of youth bulge. Mohammad Reza

Figure 1 illustrates the marginal effect of corruption on internal stability at different levels of youth bulge. Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Figure 1 illustrates the marginal effect of corruption on internal stability at different levels of youth bulge. Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Based on our main results, Table 1 and Figure 1 show average marginal effects of corruption on political stability at different levels of youth bulge. We are 90% confident that a youth bulge beyond 20% of adult population, on average, combined with high levels of corruption can significantly destabilize political systems within specific countries when other factors described above also taken into account. We are 99% confident about a youth bulge beyond 30% levels.

Our results can help explain the risk of internal conflict and the possible time window for it happening. They could guide policy makers and international organizations in allocating their anti-corruption budget better, taking into account the demographic structure of societies and the risk of political instability.

About the Author:

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan is Professor of Economics of the Middle East and Chair of the Research Group at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) of the Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany. He is the program director for the International Master’s program in Economics of the Middle East in Marburg. He earned his Ph.D. (with DAAD scholarship) at TU Dresden (2006-2009; summa cum laude); dissertation topic: Political Economy of Natural Resources and Governance in Iran: An Empirical Investigation.

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IndraStra Global: FEATURED | Can We Predict Political Uprisings?
FEATURED | Can We Predict Political Uprisings?
Forecasting political unrest is a challenging task, especially in this era of post-truth and opinion polls.
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