effect between Islam and democracy is spurious. There is no causal relationship between Islam and democracy. Copyright … studies have traced this to the allegedly repressive nature of Islam. This article replicates the most recent study on this …

House indices have been criticized on several grounds, I reinvestigate Rowley and Smith’s finding using the new Democracy …

In "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy", Robert D. Woodberry (2012) claims that the emergence of stable … alternative democracy measures and extend the time period over which the democracy measures are averaged. These two simple … development of democracy, which raises concerns about the robustness and broader applicability of Woodberry's findings. We discuss …

In "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy", Robert D. Woodberry (2012) claims that the emergence of stable … alternative democracy measures and extend the time period over which the democracy measures are averaged. These two simple … development of democracy, which raises concerns about the robustness and broader applicability of Woodberry's findings. We discuss …

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … Protestantism is associated with economic freedom, Islam is not, with Catholicism in between. The Protestant ethic requires economic …

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … Protestantism is associated with economic freedom, Islam is not, with Catholicism in between. The Protestant ethic requires economic …

This paper questions why, and indeed how, Muslims have agitated for democracy during different stages of post … democracy in post-Communist Albania. The empirical analysis traces how the centralised Muslim organization, the Albanian Muslim … intellectual arguments in order to define and justify its positions on democracy during different stages of post …