Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: A reply and update

Public Choice

Volumn 154, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 323-332

  Potrafke, Niklas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Islam; Political institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873709744     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-012-0051-9     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Alesina, A., Devleeschauwer, A., Easterly, W., Kurlat, S., & Wacziarg, R. (2003). Fractionalization. Journal of Economic Growth, 8, 155-194.
2. Barro, R. (1999). Determinants of democracy. Journal of Political Economy, 107, S158-S183.
3. Bernholz, P. (1995). Supreme values, tolerance, and the constitution of liberty. In G. Radnitzky & H. Bouillon (Eds.), Values and the social order, values and society (Vol. 1, pp. 235-250). Brookfield: Avery Publishing.
4. Borooah, V. K., & Paldam, M. (2007). Why is the world short of democracy? A cross-country analysis of barriers to representative government. European Journal of Political Economy, 23, 582-604.
5. Cheibub, J., Gandhi, J., & Vreeland, J. R. (2010). Democracy and dictatorship revisited. Public Choice, 143, 67-101.
6. Donno, D., & Russett, B. (2004). Islam, authoritarianism, and female empowerment. World Politics, 56, 582-607.
7. Easterly, W., & Sewadeh, M. (2001). Global Development Network Growth Database. Worldbank Economic and Development Research Group. Washington.
8. Facchini, F. (2010). Religion, law and development: Islam and Christianity-why is it in occident and not in the orient that man invented the institutions of freedom? European Journal of Law and Economics, 29, 103-129.
9. Fish, S. (2002). Islam and authoritarism. World Politics, 55, 4-37.
10. Gassebner, M., Lamla, M. J., & Vreeland, J. R. (2012, forthcoming). Extreme bounds of democracy. Journal of Conflict Resolution.
11. Hanusch, M. (2013). Islam and democracy: a response. Public Choice, this issue.
12. Hillman, A. L. (2007a). Democracy and low-income countries. In J. C. Pardo & P. Schwartz (Eds.), Public choice and challenges of democracy (pp. 277-294). Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar.
13. Hillman, A. L. (2007b). Economic and security consequences of supreme values. Public Choice, 30, 259-280.
14. Kalyvitis, S., & Vlachaki, I. (2012). When does more aid imply less democracy? An empirical examination. European Journal of Political Economy, 28, 132-146.
15. Karatnycky, A. (2002). Muslim countries and the democracy gap. Journal of Democracy, 13, 99-112.
16. Kuran, T. (1997). Islam and underdevelopment: an old puzzle revisited. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 153, 41-71.
17. Kuran, T. (2005). The logic of financial westernization in the Middle East. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 56, 593-615.
18. Kuran, T. (2011). The long divergence-how Islamic law held back the Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
19. Kuran, T., & Lustig, S. (2012, forthcoming). Judicial biases in Ottoman Istanbul-Islamic justice and its compatibility with modern economic life. Journal of Law and Economics.
20. Kuran, T., & Singh, A. (2012, forthcoming). Economic modernization in late British India: Hindu-Muslim differences. Economic Development and Cultural Change.
21. La Porta, R., Lopez-di-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. (1999). The quality of government. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 15, 222-279.
22. Lewis, B. (1993). Islam and liberal democracy. Atlantic Monthly, 271, 89-98.
23. Lipset, S. M. (1994). The social requisites of democracy revisited. American Sociology Review, 59, 1-22.
24. Maseland, R., & van Hoorn, A. (2011). Why Muslims like democracy yet have so little of it. Public Choice, 147, 481-496.
25. Midlarsky, M. (1998). Democracy and Islam: implications for civilizational conflict and the democratic peace. International Studies Quarterly, 42, 485-511.
26. Pew Research Center (2011). The future of the global Muslim population. http://www. pewforum. org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Religious_Affiliation/Muslim/FutureGlobalMuslimPopulation-WebPDF-Feb10. pdf (accessed on November 2, 2012).
27. Potrafke, N. (2012). Islam and democracy. Public Choice, 151, 185-192.
28. Ross, M. L. (2001). Does oil hinder democracy? World Politics, 53, 325-361.
29. Ross, M. L. (2009). Oil and democracy revisited. Working Paper. UCLA, Los Angeles.
30. Ross, M. L. (2012). The oil curse: how petroleum wealth shapes the development of nations. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
31. Rowley, C. K., & Smith, N. (2009). Islam's democracy paradox: Muslims claim to like democracy, so why do they have so little? Public Choice, 139, 273-299.
32. Summers, R., & Heston, A. (1991). The Penn World Table (Mark 5): an expanded set of international comparisons, 1950-1988. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106, 327-369.
33. U. S. Energy Information Administration (2012). Data on oil production. http://www. eia. gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3. cfm?tid=5&pid=57&aid=1&cid=regions&syid=2007&eyid=2011&unit=TBPD (accessed on November 14, 2012).
34. Voigt, S. (2005). Islam and the institutions of a free society. Independent Review, 10, 59-82.