Charu Gupta

Graduation Semester and Year

2007

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Political Science

Department

Political Science

First Advisor

Mark Cichock

Abstract

In the last century, the world has seen the rise and fall of empires, two world wars, and the subsequent creation of new states. Very little attention has been paid to how well these seceded states fared at self-governance. This thesis proposes a theory to explain the behavior of the governments of seceded states and examines three variables to determine how politically stable seceded states may be. For a comprehensive study, cases that gained independence between 1900 and 2000 were chosen from around the world with eight cases used for qualitative analysis and twenty cases for quantitative analysis. There is strong evidence that for seceded states to be politically stable the governments must adhere to their constitutional structures and the public needs to participate in the political process.

Disciplines

Political Science | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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