PITF

Political Instability Task Force

Internal Wars and Failures of Governance,
1955-2006

PITF Phase V Findings (through 2004)

The US Government-sponsored Political Instability Task Force presented many of its Phase V findings during a panel at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC, September 3, 2005. Copies of the three papers presented at the meeting are posted here in PDF format.


A Global Forecasting Model of Political Instability
Jack A. Goldstone, Robert Bates, Ted Robert Gurr, Michael Lustik, Monty G. Marshall, Jay Ulfelder, and Mark Woodward
Forecasting Instability: Are Ethnic War and Muslim Country Models Different?
Ted Robert Gurr, Mark Woodward, and Monty G. Marshall
Modeling Transitions to and from Democracy
Jay Ulfelder and Michael Lustik

A revised version of this paper appeared in the June 2007 issue of the journal Democratization, copies can be ordered from the publisher. Click here.

Political Instability Task Force



Center for Global Policy

Copyright 2007