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De l'impératif de la vertu politique à la préférence de Rousseau pour un gouvernement aristocratique
More informationIn Rousseau's political theory, if the form of government matters little, as long as it remains subordinate to the sovereign, the Genevan philosopher nevertheless seems to give his preference to an aristocratic type of government in order to meet this requirement. Faced with the difficulty of meeting the supposed conditions of democratic government and establishing political virtue as the principle of a truly democratic society, the reasoning of the Genevan seems to lead him to think of the government of the aristocratic type as the best of all, with magistrates who govern for the common good and execute the general will without tending to embody it : an enaretocratic government, based on the political virtue of its magistrates. This government can be received as a privileged expedient to neutralize the oligarchical ferments of any political society. The modernity of the Genevan philosopher's thought lies in the fact that it opens up possibilities in terms of political practice.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is facing situations of political instability against a backdrop of mass unemployment. Economic literature remains divided on the relationship between the two phenomena. Some authors believe that political instability is the source of unemployment, while others think the opposite. To this end, the aim of this article is to study the relationship between political instability and unemployment in sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model in panel data and data from 2002-2022 are used. The results show a unidirectional relationship from unemployment to political instability, supporting that, on the one hand, unemployment is a lubricant of political instability, and, on the other hand, unemployment is a marginal consequence of political instability. These results show the need for public policies that are likely to promote economic growth and employment and to strengthen democracy and governance in order to break the vicious circle of unemployment and political instability that hamper development in countries south of the Sahara. These include appropriate investments in human capital, in social services and in the promotion of industrialization, in order to facilitate access to employment, particularly for young people, who make up a significant proportion of the demographic structure.