The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy

Autor:	Robert D. Woodberry
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science Modernity media_common.quotation_subject Liberal democracy Modernization theory Plague (disease) Democracy Surprise Political economy Political Science and International Relations Narrative Sociology Social science media_common
Zdroj:	American Political Science Review. 106:244-274
ISSN:	1537-5943 0003-0554
DOI:	10.1017/s0003055412000093
Popis:	This article demonstrates historically and statistically that conversionary Protestants (CPs) heavily influenced the rise and spread of stable democracy around the world. It argues that CPs were a crucial catalyst initiating the development and spread of religious liberty, mass education, mass printing, newspapers, voluntary organizations, and colonial reforms, thereby creating the conditions that made stable democracy more likely. Statistically, the historic prevalence of Protestant missionaries explains about half the variation in democracy in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania and removes the impact of most variables that dominate current statistical research about democracy. The association between Protestant missions and democracy is consistent in different continents and subsamples, and it is robust to more than 50 controls and to instrumental variable analyses.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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