Bakker, Femke E and Rotondi, Valentina (2016) Vote for Your Family! Particularism, Support for Democracy and Support for Shari’a in the Arab World. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 12 (2). pp. 115-137.
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This paper examines the micro-foundations of the relationship between political particularism, support for democracy and support for Shari’a in the Arab World. Our hypotheses suggest that particularism reduces support for democracy whilst it increases support for Shari’a since, at the individual-level, in-group (family/clan) obligations are more binding than obligations towards the state (universal). We test our hypotheses using data from the Arab Barometer. Results suggest that, even when allowing for the correlation of the error terms, particularism significantly increases support for Shari’a whilst it decreases support for democracy. Our results are robust to alternative specifications of the model and to the use of techniques aimed at addressing the potential endogeneity of particularism.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Social studies Social studies > Economics Social studies > Economics > Political economics |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Centro competenze pratiche e politiche sanitarie |
| Depositing User: | Valentina Rotondi |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2020 08:04 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2020 08:43 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/12127 |
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