<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></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.

Religion and Democracy

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

Journal of Heterodox Economics

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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...

Religion and Democracy

Published Online: Feb 19, 2016

Page range: 31 - 53

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jheec-2015-0002

Keywords
Cultural paradigm, democracy, human development, religion, WVS

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Religion and Democracy

Published Online: Feb 19, 2016

Page range: 31 - 53

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jheec-2015-0002

KeywordsCultural paradigm, democracy, human development, religion, WVS

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Cultural paradigm, democracy, human development, religion, WVS