Abstract

Based on the World Values Surveys 2005 data, measures of different aspects of religion are constructed and tested against various measures of democracy on a cross-national level for a set of 41 countries. The analyses reveal that there are some significant inter-linkages between the involved variables; however, the religious variables act in a nonuniform manner on the explanatory ones. We conclude that both conceptual and empirical arguments support the idea of democracy viewed as a religious dependent variable.

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Title
Religion and Democracy
Author
Diima, Bogdan 1 ; Preda, Ciipriian 2 ; Diima, Mariia 3 

 West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Blvd. Pestalozzi 16, Timisoara 300115, Romania 
 East European Centre for Research in Economics and Business (ECREB), West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Blvd. Pestalozzi 16, Timisoara 300115, Romania 
 Vasile Goldiş Western University of Arad, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Mihai Eminescu St. 15, Arad, Romania 
Pages
31-53
Publication year
2013
Publication date
2013
Publisher
De Gruyter Poland
e-ISSN
23444150
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3156770329
Copyright
© 2013. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.