Government Dependency Theory: Public Services, Banking Crisis, and the Likelihood of Protests
Journal: Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis)
Year: 2014

The purpose of this research is to determine what causes certain countries to experience mass protests during economic crises while other governments weather the same events and emerge unscathed. Further research on this topic could predict the likelihood of protests that lead to state collapse in countries like Ukraine. I argue that high gross domestic product expenditure on social services creates a dependent society that will protest when those goods and services are threatened by banking cri