Colonialism, European descendants and democracy

Luis Angeles ()

Working Papers from Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow

Abstract: This paper advances that the share of European descendants in the population is a major determinant of democracy in former colo- nial countries. We test this hypothesis using cross-section and panel regressions with 60 developing and developed countries that were once colonies. We nd that the share of European descendants can explain more than half of the di¤erence in measures of democracy between the least and the most democratic countries in our sample. We control for other potential determinants of democracy and test for endogeneity bias using instrumental variables.

Keywords: democracy; European descendants; colonialism. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N46 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11
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