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6 - Global Analyses
from II - Maritime Geography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
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Chapter 6 presents statistical tests of the relationship between natural harbors and democracy. Tests of the early modern era utilize a limited dataset from the Ethnographic Atlas while later tests offer broader coverage using a variety of regime type indicators. A wide range of model specifications are utilized including varying measures of harbors and harbor distance, varying measures of democracy, and varying samples. The evidence that natural harbors have a positive correlation with democratic regimes is robust to all of these different model specifications. The chapter concludes by considering the waning of this effect over time.
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- The Deep Roots of Modern DemocracyGeography and the Diffusion of Political Institutions, pp. 165 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022