Artificial states
Edición de la obra Artificial states
| Autor | Alberto Alesina |
|---|---|
| Editorial | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| Fecha de publicación | 2006 |
| Lugar | Cambridge, MA |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Formato | Electronic resource |
| LCCN | 2006619583 |
| Serie | NBER working paper series -- working paper 12328 · Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12328. |
| Número de Cutter | A371a |
"Artificial states are those in which political borders do not coincide with a division of nationalities desired by the people on the ground. We propose and compute for all countries in the world two new measures how artificial states are. One is based on measuring how borders split ethnic groups into two separate adjacent countries. The other one measures how straight land borders are, under the assumption the straight land borders are more likely to be artificial. We then show that these two measures seem to be highly correlated with several measures of political and economic success"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.