Political Fragility: Coups d’État and Their Drivers

The paper explores the drivers of political fragility by focusing on coups d’état as symptomatic of such fragility. It uses event studies to identify factors that exhibit significantly different dynamics in the runup to coups, and machine learning to identify these stressors and more structural dete...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cebotari, Aliona
Other Authors: Chueca-Montuenga, Enrique, Diallo, Yoro, Ma, Yunsheng
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2024
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 03539nmm a2200625 u 4500
001 EB002215044
003 EBX01000000000000001352005
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 240607 ||| eng
020 |a 9798400266751 
100 1 |a Cebotari, Aliona 
245 0 0 |a Political Fragility: Coups d’État and Their Drivers  |c Aliona Cebotari, Enrique Chueca-Montuenga, Yoro Diallo, Yunsheng Ma, Rima Turk, Weining Xin, Harold Zavarce 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 2024 
300 |a 66 pages 
653 |a Fiscal stance 
653 |a Econometric Modeling: General 
653 |a Economics 
653 |a Income 
653 |a Conflict 
653 |a Fiscal Policy 
653 |a National accounts 
653 |a Economics of specific sectors 
653 |a Population and demographics 
653 |a Currency crises 
653 |a Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development 
653 |a Demography 
653 |a Population 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Population & demography 
653 |a Economic & financial crises & disasters 
653 |a Machine learning 
653 |a Technological Change: Choices and Consequences 
653 |a Demographic Economics: General 
653 |a Technology 
653 |a Environment 
653 |a Economics: General 
653 |a Informal sector 
653 |a Diffusion Processes 
653 |a Intelligence (AI) & Semantics 
653 |a Aggregate Factor Income Distribution 
653 |a Fiscal policy 
653 |a Alliances 
653 |a Econometric and Statistical Methods: General 
653 |a Conflict Resolution 
700 1 |a Chueca-Montuenga, Enrique 
700 1 |a Diallo, Yoro 
700 1 |a Ma, Yunsheng 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a IMF Working Papers 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9798400266751.001 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2024/034/001.2024.issue-034-en.xml?cid=544943-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a The paper explores the drivers of political fragility by focusing on coups d’état as symptomatic of such fragility. It uses event studies to identify factors that exhibit significantly different dynamics in the runup to coups, and machine learning to identify these stressors and more structural determinants of fragility—as well as their nonlinear interactions—that create an environment propitious to coups. The paper finds that the destabilization of a country’s economic, political or security environment—such as low growth, high inflation, weak external positions, political instability and conflict—set the stage for a higher likelihood of coups, with overlapping stressors amplifying each other. These stressors are more likely to lead to breakdowns in political systems when demographic pressures and underlying structural weaknesses (especially poverty, exclusion, and weak governance) are present or when policies are weaker, through complex interactions. Conversely, strengthened fundamentals and macropolicies have higher returns in structurally fragile environments in terms of staving off political breakdowns, suggesting that continued engagement by multilateral institutions and donors in fragile situations is likely to yield particularly high dividends. The model performs well in predicting coups out of sample, having predicted a high probability of most 2020-23 coups, including in the Sahel region