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This article presents a statistical study of the determinants of democracy in the postwar period. Important variables are found to be former status as a British colony, island status, the share of the population professing Islam, the percentage of European descent, penteration of the English language during colonial rule, and ethnic homogeneity.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 28048.

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Date of creation: 2001
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Publication status: Published in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1.573(2001): pp. 16-41
Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:28048

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Keywords: democracy; development; culture; ethnic homogeneity;

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1. Svensson, Jakob, 1998. "Foreign aid and rent-seeking," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1880, The World Bank.
   
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Cited by:

1. Martin Gassebner & Michael J. Lamla & James Raymond Vreeland, 2009. "Extreme Bounds of Democracy," KOF Working papers 09-224, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.
2. Knack, Stephen, 2003. "Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy?," MPRA Paper 24855, University Library of Munich, Germany.
3. Knack, Stephen, 2002. "Governance and growth: measurement and evidence," MPRA Paper 28050, University Library of Munich, Germany.
4. Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, 2007. "Institutions, Trade, and Social Cohesion in Fragile States," ICER Working Papers 24-2007, ICER - International Centre for Economic Research.
   
   • Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, 2008. "Institutions, Trade, and Social Cohesion in Fragile States," Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper Series 3908, BWPI, The University of Manchester.
5. Robbert Maseland & André Hoorn, 2011. "Why Muslims like democracy yet have so little of it," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 147(3), pages 481-496, June.

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