Estimating the legibility of international borders.

ABSTRACT: Researchers in the social sciences are interested in the consequences of institutions, increasingly on a global scale. Institutions that may be negotiated between states can have consequences at a microlevel, as local populations adjust their expectations and ultimately even their behavior to take institutional rules into account. However, large-scale fine-grained analyses that test for the complex evidence of such institutions locally are rare. This article focuses on a key institution: International borders. Using computer vision techniques, we show that it is possible to produce a geographically specific, validated, and replicable way to characterize border legibility, by which we mean the ability to visually detect the presence of an international border in physical space. We de

SUBMITTER: Kenwick M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11831178 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature