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Terrorism risk and democratic preferences in Pakistan

Rehman, Faiz Ur; Vanin, Paolo - 2015

Beyond direct damages, terrorism creates fear and insecurity, potentially reducing support for democratic institutions … possibility, we use data from Pakistan, a country that experienced an exponential rise in terrorism since 2001. Exploiting … exposure to terrorism (and more broadly to violence) is associated to a significantly lower support for democratic values …

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The roots of Islamist armed struggle, 1968 - 2007 : conference paper

Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim - 2014

This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...

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Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions Between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law

Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2021

Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower

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Causes and consequences of democracy and terror

Gassebner, Martin - 2007

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Extreme bounds of democracy

Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael J.; Vreeland, James … - 2009

There are many stories of democracy but little consensus over which variables robustly determine its emergence and survival. We apply extreme bounds analysis to test the robustness of 59 factors proposed in the literature, evaluating over 3 million regressions. The most robust determinants of...

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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: A reply and update

Potrafke, Niklas - 2012

My empirical results in Potrafke (2012) confirm past conclusions that Muslim-majority countries are less likely to be democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam and democracy. In his comment on my study,...

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