The purpose of this research was to construct a plausible model for the significant determinants of political instability and its nature in the Arab World. The period of the study was from 1960-1977. The indicators of all the concerned variables were entered into a factor analysis program, (SPSS, 1976). The factor scores were generated from the SPSS program, for each year for each country. An average factor score was generated for each country, which reflects the degree of political instability for each of the studied countries. The findings were interesting in that there was more than one model discovered. In fact, there were four. The first model composes the Turmoil component of the concept of political instability. The second model composes the Elite Struggle component of the political instability. The third model composes the Frequency of Executive Turnover component of the political instability. They were called PI1, PI2, PI3, and the combined model for all the three, CPI. The hypotheses were examined and the following results were stated: The first hypothesis was not supported by the study. However, the second hypothesis was supported. Furthermore, neither the third hypothesis nor the fourth (I) hypothesis was supported by the study. However, the fourth (II) was supported. The fifth and sixth were not supported. / Finally, these models represent the economic, political and, I believe, social reality of the Arab World. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-12, Section: A, page: 3857. / Major Professor: Charles Billings. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77898 |
| Contributors | Haddad, Amjad Eqiel., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 408 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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