Irrigation and Autocracy
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Irrigation and Autocracy. / Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding; Kaarsen, Nicolai; Wingender, Asger Moll.
Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2012.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Irrigation and Autocracy
AU - Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding
AU - Kaarsen, Nicolai
AU - Wingender, Asger Moll
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
M3 - Working paper
T3 - University of Copenhagen. Institute of Economics. Discussion Papers (Online)
BT - Irrigation and Autocracy
PB - Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
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