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5061389 Economics Letters 2010 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
The effects of diversity on democratization are investigated here. Ethnic fractionalization and polarization do not seem to affect democratization significantly, whereas religious fractionalization and polarization do affect democratization; countries with higher religious diversity experienced more democratization in the 1990s.
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Do more ethnically and religiously diverse countries have lower democratization?
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