Minor premise: Catholic countries are more likely to be democracies than dictatorships. Cultural Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship. This work may not be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means without express written permission of the publisher. In this chapter, we are primarily interested in how political culture affects the emergence and survival of democracy. endstream 2019), namely the Regimes of the World measure in Lhrmann etal. Standard errors are shown in parentheses. Third, we assess the extent to which between- or within-country differences drive the results by applying the Mundlak (1978) estimator, which calculates the mean value for each country (between-variation) and subtracts country-year values from this mean (within-variation). One way in which political scientists attempt to deal with this issue is through the use of anchoring vignettes (King et al. Can you think of potential problems that might occur when using anchoring vignettes? c. In the chapter, we discussed how researchers sometimes use anchoring vignettes to help overcome differential item functioning. c. Why does Fish believe that having a predominantly Islamic religious tradition might be detrimental to the level of democracy in a country? o Nearly all countries with a GDP per capita about $8,000 are Next to each independent Dovariable not (in the other copy, columns) is a coefficient post, with a corresponding or standard distribute error beneath it in parentheses. This puts pressure on authoritarian regimes to democratize and for democratic regimes to act more effectively. The game then begins. We created ten different imputed datasets and drew randomly one of the ten datasets for each regression to avoid the problem of particular imputations influencing the results. Political Order in Changing Societies Samuel P. Huntington 1968 This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis. This is because he thought that culture is inherently malleable and that, as a result, people could learn to live with democracy. Having examined how various cultural factors affect the emergence of democracy, we now investigate how they influence the survival of democracy. Yet, our investigation of facilitating and fatal variables facilitates theoretically informed discussions of which of the controls represent likely confounders and which represent likely mediators. income in a country but that we will still observe a long-run positive Berkeley: UC Berkeley Press. Chapter 7 Cultural Determinants of Democracy & Dictatorship Key Terms 1. International Organization, 60(4), 911933. DEMOCRACY OR DICTATORSHIP: DOES IT MAKE . Copyright 2018 by SAGE Publications, Inc. The first player, often called the proposer, is provisionally allotted a divisible pie (usually money). Given the lack of pre-1960 data for numerous indicators, we unfortunately cannot study earlier periods in our setup, which could affect our conclusions (see Boix 2011). In and of itself, however, this does not establish a. First, we address, simultaneously, robustness to varying the control specification, sample and operationalization of the outcomes. Problems with Group Decision Making. First, we estimated our models excluding GDP per capita as a core variable in order to reduce concerns of post-treatment bias. These proposers are clearly acting out of a sense of fairness; they exhibit what some call a prosocial behavior. to the viability of democratic institutions (Inglehart 1990, 15). endstream survival world that throws light on why culture may important be for emergence the We exa We in insupportevidence of is somewhat cultural modernization mixed. We distinguish between democratization and democratic survival and test the sensitivities of 67 proposed determinants by varying the control variable set, democracy measure, and sample time period. Lipset, S. M. (1959). 1. (2013) do, we find that short-term economic growth is negatively related to democratization, but only for two of four democracy measures. The Arab Spring uprisings in 2011 were important political events, re-igniting old academic debates. Dark grey = significant at .10 level. Social capital trust, and social cooperation. Minor premise: Most Islamic countries around the world today are dictatorships. Still others have suggested that those who portray the rule of law in a democratic state (law of man) as being inherently in conflict with sharia, or Islamic law (law of God), are creating a false dichotomy. He reaches this conclusion using Freedom House as his measure of democracy. c. By solving the game in Figure 7.5, you have found out that the state can expect to receive one of two possible payoffs if it transgresses. The responses to this question mix the preferences of the respondents toward the policy and their preferences toward the sensitive actor. Yet, the income-democratization link has been re-established in otherstudies adjusting the statistical model and using alternative democracy measures (Epstein etal. From Democracy to Dictatorship in 3 Steps. For democratic stability, only income level (+), democratic neighborhood (+), former military leader (), and number of past transitions () are robust. Furthermore, being located in a democratic neighborhood increases the likelihood of democratization (Gleditsch and Ward 2006); alsothat result is remarkably robust. Four democracy measures combined with four time periods leave us with 16 subsets of results. As we indicate in this chapter, though, a quick glance at the history of these types of arguments should make one very cautious of unthink- Doingly not accepting that copy, certain religions are incompatiblepost, with democracy.or distributeFor example, some political scientists used to claim as recently as the 1970s that Catholicism was antithetical to, Copyright 2018 by SAGE Publications, Inc. Laszlo Awareness March 1, 2021 5 Minutes. He goes on to claim that it can be only by chance that the political institutions of one country can successfully be exported to another. Despite the widely held belief by many that Islam is incompatible with democracy, the empirical analyses that we conducted in this chapter suggest that there is little reason to believe that majority Muslim countries cannot become and remain democratic once we take account of their wealth. Macro-determinants and retrospective experiences have been shown to affect the support . A key point here is that measuring or inferring reality by comparing peoples attitudes or perceptions across different regions, countries, or cultures can often be extremely misleading (Sen 2002). Researchers who use surveys often confront certain problems, two of which we briefly discuss here. We sometimes refer to individuals who care only about their own share of the pie as Homo economicus. But, democratic breakdowns also could be processes that inherently are harder to explain than democratization episodes. The culture of gift giving not only explains the generous offers made by the Au and Gnau proposers but also explains why large offers were so readily rejected by the responders; these excessively large gifts tended to produce anxiety about the unspoken strings that were attached to them. In this vein, several empirical studies have suggested that Islam is particularly bad for democracyIslamic coun- tries seem to have lower Freedom House scores than non-Islamic countries. To mitigate multicollinearity and post-treatment bias we restrict the total number of explanatory variables to six pairs (main and interaction terms of core variables (C), focus variable (z), and controls (x)) plus the lagged dependent variable. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 57(2), 171197. The core idea in endorsement experiments is to protect the confidentiality of individual responses by mixing attitudes toward a sensitive political actor with attitudes toward one or more policies. However, that non-finding is sensitive to the choice of democracy measure, the time period under study, and controlling for natural resources and industrialization, which we consider to be plausible facilitating controls. Thus, evidence indeed exists favoring a more nuanced interpretation of the Lipset (1959) thesis; at least some forms of economic development are associated robustly with democratization. a. In accordance with a long line of scholarship on Italy, Putnam found that regional governments in the north of Italy functioned far more effectively than those in the south. How did the individuals in these societies act in the Ultimatum and Dictator Games? As anticipated from the literature review, the aggregate result is sensitive to the inclusion of specific controls. 258 Principles of Comparative Politics, Lamelara Ach Pittsburg Shona Orma Au Achuar Sangu Gnau Tsiman Khazax Torguud Mapuche Hadza Machiguenga Quichua. crown actors use their new found bargaining power to increase the M(HS VzIZY Thus, the question as to whether Islam is bad for democracy because of its treatment of women remains an open question in our eyes. range of political institutions. Democracy and dictatorship revisited. 2004; King and Wand 2007). Much attention likewise has been devoted to how (4) natural resources impede transitions to democracy (Ross 2001). Similarly, variables capturing social development, in particular average years of education for women/men, are robust. 2016). The plots are based on subsets of 900010000 specifications for GDP per capita which enters all regressions, and 80120 specifications for Muslim population shares. 298 0 obj <>stream Why might this be problematic? \({\bar{\beta }}\) is quite large; a standard deviation change in GDP per capita increases the odds that a democracy survives the next year by a median of 1.7. Use a real, or staged event as a flashpoint. In fact, fully 68 percent of the variance in offers could be explained by these two variables alone. 2004). civic culture 228 primordialist arguments 224 constructivist arguments 224 social capital 229 Docultural not modernization copy, theory 226 post,social desirability or bias 233distribute differential item functioning 234, Copyright 2018 by SAGE Publications, Inc. and the traditional seats of power esp. nothing to lose, poor people may be more willing to take a chance In other words, diversity of these kinds does not seem to destabilize dictatorships. We know that Protestant and Catholic countries tend to be democratic today and that Muslim countries tend to be authoritarian. Lets start by looking at the emergence of democracy. The growing empirical evidence that cultures are invented, constructed, and malleable rather than primordial, inherited, and unchanging suggests that it is inappropriate to view particular religions or civilizations as being permanently incompatible with democracy. poor countries. Coefficient plots of \({\bar{\beta }}\) with 95% CI across all specifications for Muslim share of population on democratization. The maps will visually show how the responses to your survey questions vary across countries. In this conceptualization, a political culture simply refers to a relatively coherent cluster of attitudes in society. This work may not be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means without express written permission of the publisher. This runs counter to the traditional argument that Catholic coun- tries do not provide fertile terrain for the emergence of democracy. Black = significant at .05 level. Many Muslim countries also are oil-rich, leading scholars to suspect that resource-curse mechanisms drive the negative correlation between Islam and democratization (Ross 2001). Figure3 shows, first, that when democracy is measured by PolityIV and DD/ACLP, income has a large, positive coefficient on democratic survival no matter which control enters the model. Instead, what we need to know is whether democracy is more or less likely to emerge and survive in countries that are dominated by Protestants, Muslims, or Catholics. In his discussion To What Extent Forms of Government Are a Matter of Choice, John Stuart Mill also argued that different cultures were suited to different political institutions. o For example, the increase in mobile assets. /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 305 Second, unmeasured country-specific confounders could affect the results and we therefore implement the approach in Mundlak (1978) to distinguish between- and within-country variation in an extension. Moreover, particularly generous gifts put you in a clearly subordinate position. e. In the chapter, we note that some political scientists believe that democracy is hard to sustain in countries that are characterized by a large number of ethnic or cultural groups. o Consequence of these changes is that the economy increasingly comprises The state must decide whether to transgress or not. Like Almond and Verba, Inglehart and Welzel (2005) use survey responses to determine the extent to which different societies exhibit traditional versus secular-rational values and the extent to which they exhibit survival versus self-expression values. Individuals who hold traditional values typically exhibit national pride and reject things like divorce, euthanasia, suicide, and abortion. This hardly seems a firm basis on which to draw such strong conclusions about the incompatibility of certain religions with democracy. This work may not be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means without express written permission of the publisher. Critics argue that the classic modernization theory lacks a strong causal mechanism 2010), and other thresholds have been adopted (Bogaards 2012), our specification classifies the more ambiguous, and often controversial, cases as non-democracies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00742-z, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00742-z. Rowley, C., & Smith, N. (2009). EXPERIMENTS AND CULTURE So far we have examined how culture might affect democracy using survey evidence and statistical analyses. unemployment rate to confirm if democracy really has greater concern with the wellbeing of people. We assume only that lagged regime type, time since transition, GDP per capita, and interactions should be entered. Putnams work on Italy has energized many in the policymaking community. If culture does cause democracy, is it a necessary or a sufficient condition? Islam and democracy. As youll remember from the democracy; instead, economic development produces certain cultural changes, such as the emergence of a previous chapter, modernization theory predicts that civic culture, and it is these cultural changes that immature societies (those with large agricultural sec- ultimately produce democratic reform. Countries that exhibit high levels of secular-ratio- nal and survival values (top left) include Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Yet, the picture from the empirical literature is unclear, and the mixed evidence has spawned numerous debates between scholars reporting diverging findings. o For a wealthy person, switching to a dictatorship is a gamble because there is 232 Principles of Comparative Politics. In fact, one might now even argue that Catholicism helps democratization, given the important role that the Catholic Church played in aiding demo- cratic transitions in countries like Chile, Paraguay, the Philippines, and Poland in the 1980s. For instance, we measure education using both illiteracy rates and secondary school-enrollment ratios. (2006). Linz, J. J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. A variant of modernization theory 1992; Inglehart and Welzel 2005; Boix 2003; Acemoglu etal. Huntington, S. P. (1991). Still, even though Catholic countries are more likely to become democratic, they seem to have a hard time staying democratic. A second proposed reason for the incompatibility of Islam and democracy concerns the purported inability of Islam to disassociate religious and political spheres. It is unclear why having a Catholic majority might increase the likelihood of transitioning to democracy. Do any controls facilitate a positive and significant relationship? Worth noting here is that one of the underlying concerns in both Islam and democ- racy is the need to limit the power of the state and the people who rule. Other scholars have argued that ethnic diversity is particularly bad for democracy because it makes reaching compromises difficult and because it raises the risk of intercommunal violence (Dahl 1971; Horowitz 1993; Lijphart 1977; Rabushka and Shepsle 1972). Relying on the DemocracyDictatorship measure from Cheibub etal. We know, however, that these countries tend to be poorer than most other countries. Correspondence to Treisman, D. (2015). Both democracy and dictatorship are the systems that tend to govern the state or rule over the people, and the difference, however in a democracy is that the people believe that the ruling elite has their consent to rule. More recently, the issue of Islam and democracy has. Assessing robustness is not only important for literatures with mixed results, but also when consensus emerges. New York: Columbia University Press. They are then asked to provide an assessment of a vignette (short story) that depicts a particular outcome of that issue. We also expand parts of the analysis to address country-specific characteristics and post-treatment bias. What are the payoffs that each of the three players receive in the two Nash equilibria? Explain how this strategy worked. Countries in which citizens have coordinated their beliefs on these matters might be said to be characterized by a democratic culture. We now analyze a Coordination and Democracy Game inspired by Weingast (1997) to explore this argument further. The key, though, is that the interviewer knows the probability with which truthful answers are given (if the respondents follow the instructions) and can therefore calculate the overall numbers of respondents who said yes and no to the sensitive question. Grndler, K., & Krieger, T. (2016). Nonetheless, our analysis highlights that, in addition to GDP per capita, only the indicators for political corruption and impartial public administration are robust determinants of democratic survival. The mixed evidence on many proposed determinants of democracy and the absence of consensus on how to specify empirical democracy models correctly, constitute strong reasons for conducting sensitivity analysis. The democratization literature is vast. As A. M. Khan (2010, 6) notes, the Constitution of Medina was the first document in history to establish religious freedom as a fundamental constitu- tional right. In effect, the constitution envisioned a religiously pluralistic Islamic state. Journal of Institutional Economics, 9(04), 469490. Field Experiment 8. The large difference could reflect that previous theoretical efforts and empirical studies, which have informed our variable selection, are more attuned to explaining democratization (see Knutsen and Nygrd 2015). xn w?jvZ[aR#V/Vu>?~7hPWc|:hdO&8CI)9{^=pvO@]$= ^j>fG) wuEbLtRorJQV{J'gfL+v&-\\bm?UAMy']-as19aVP7fGF}o=Wxxc Based on our discussion in the chapter, why might this be problematic for drawing inferences about whether Islam is incompatible with the emergence and the survival of democracy? 242 Principles of Comparative Politics. This work may not be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means without express written permission of the publisher. Triumphant in 1918, it was virtually extinct twenty years on. To count as an electoral democracy, a country must pass three thresholds on indicators of multiparty elections (\(v2elmulpar\_osp>2\)), free and fair elections (\(v2elfrefair\_osp>2\)), and an Electoral Democracy index (\(v2x\_polyarchy>0.5\)). 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