Irrigation and Autocracy
Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
We show that societies with a history of irrigation-based agriculture have been less likely to adopt democracy than societies with a history of rainfed agriculture. Rather than actual irrigation, the empirical analysis is based on how much irrigation potentially can increase yields.Irrigation potential is derived from a range of exogenous geographic factors, and reverse causality is therefore ruled out. Our results hold both at the cross-country level, and at the subnational
level in premodern societies surveyed by ethnographers.
level in premodern societies surveyed by ethnographers.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Udgiver | Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen |
Antal sider | 32 |
Status | Udgivet - 2012 |
Navn | University of Copenhagen. Institute of Economics. Discussion Papers (Online) |
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Nummer | 06 |
Vol/bind | 2012 |
ISSN | 1601-2461 |
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