Can someone explain the consept of political stability and political instability? I always figured political instability, for example, just meant changes in the government and political unrest, leading to sudden changes in law and legislation. But it seems more complex than that?
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One way to think of it is to remember that politics is an alternative to warfare. People settle their disputes through the organized business of government, and that’s that.
In politically unstable countries, they don’t use politics to get what they want. The option of going directly to violence to achieve those ends is on the table, and the instability comes from never knowing if a particular act is going to push it into open violent conflict to settle disagreements.
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