Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis
We revisit and critically reevaluate the widely accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. Existing studies find support for this hypothesis because they fail to control for the presence of omitted variables. Controll...
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Elsevier
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55290 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-7155 |