Do more ethnically and religiously diverse countries have lower democratization?

Sacit Akdede

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 106, issue 2, 101-104

Abstract: The effects of diversity on democratization are investigated here. Ethnic fractionalization and polarization do not seem to affect democratization significantly, whereas religious fractionalization and polarization do affect democratization; countries with higher religious diversity experienced more democratization in the 1990s.

Keywords: Ethnic; and; religious; polarization; and; fractionalization; Democratization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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