Borooah, Vani K.; Paldam, Martin - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2006
This study first uses a set of graphs and tables to present the pattern of democracy in the world, using the Gastil … democracy of a handful of variables. It shows that poverty, Communism and the Muslim culture are the main barriers to democracy … analysis focuses on the dynamics of the income effect and of the democratic deficit of the Muslim countries to see if it is …