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Democracy and income in-equality : an empirical analysis

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Milanović, Branko; Ying, Yvonne - 2001

proxied by a country s dominant religion seems to be related to inequality. But in addition, in Judeo-Christian societies …

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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …

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Climate dialog, climate action : can democracy do the job?

Philips, Fred Young; Reimer, LaVonne; Turner, Rebecca - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 8 (2022) 1, pp. 1-11

The latest IPCC report forcefully states that immediate, decisive, and large-scale actions are needed to avert climate catastrophe. This essay presumes that democratic governments are best and most desirably positioned to take these actions. Yet in the countries most pivotal to global climate...

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Religion and democracy

Dima, Bogdan; Preda, Ciprian; Dima, Stefana - In: Journal of heterodox economics : JHE 1 (2014) 1, pp. 31-53

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Conversionary protestants do not cause democracy

Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2020

In "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy", Robert D. Woodberry (2012) claims that the emergence of stable … democracies around the world was influenced by conversionary Protestantism. While Woodberry's historical analysis is exhaustive … alternative democracy measures and extend the time period over which the democracy measures are averaged. These two simple …

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