Predicting #Revolution: ’The Index of Potential Unrest’ - Richard Florida - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/03/predicting-revolution-the-index-of-potential-unrest/71743
The "Shoe-Throwers’ Index" (see chart below) is The Economist’s attempt to quantify all of these factors. It is weighted to the age structure of the population (specifically, the percent of people under 25 years of age) and accounts for the number of years a government has been in power, its lack of democracy and excess of corruption, the prevalence of censorship, and the level of economic development as measured by GDP per person. The Economist notes that Jordan comes out surprisingly low on the index and suggests that its weighting might benefit from some additional tweaks.
