Islam and Democracy

Niklas Potrafke

No 2010-10, Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz from Department of Economics, University of Konstanz

Abstract: Using the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices, Rowley and Smith (2009) found that countries with Muslim majorities enjoy less freedom and are less democratic than countries in which Muslims are a minority. Because the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices have been criticized on several grounds, I reinvestigate Rowley and Smith’s finding using the new Democracy-Dictatorship data from Cheibub et al. (2010). The empirical results confirm that countries with Muslim majorities are indeed less likely to be democratic.

Keywords: Islam; religion; democracy; political institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F59 O11 P16 P48 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2010-11-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara, nep-cdm, nep-cwa, nep-pol and nep-soc
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