The developed countries of the Global North have mostly achieved high levels of stability. What characteristics are said to make a country stable?

What will be an ideal response?

The ideal answer should include:
1. Most countries in the Global North have achieved their stability goals. This is associated with them scoring highly on the following variables:
- Democratization: All the Global North countries are constitutional democracies, and, thus, leaders and policies are constrained by the rule of law. They tend to be parliamentary democracies with a distributed power structure.
- Political institutionalization: The more developed countries have high levels of political institutionalization - that is, substantial capabilities, value, and stability support their political structures and processes.
- Order maintenance: The more developed countries have had varying levels of success in meeting the stability goal of order maintenance. This goal can be interpreted as the absence of disorder in the political, social, and personal domains.