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International Political Economy and Political Demography: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

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The authors of this chapter seek to further our knowledge of economic growth, change and conflict. They build a general model that offers a new perspective on politics. It shows that economic development is a complex socioeconomic process involving multiple factors within a dynamic, nonlinear relationship. Their model synthesizes diverse ideas from politics, economics and demography and helps us understand problems such as income inequality and major conflict.

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Kyungkook Kang

  2. Politics and International Relations, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, USA

    Tadeusz Kugler

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Kang, K., Kugler, T. (2017). International Political Economy and Political Demography: An Interdisciplinary Exploration. In: Yetiv, S., James, P. (eds) Advancing Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40823-1_9

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