Как было бы похвально, если бы люди столько же упражняли свой мозг, сколько упражняют тело, и так же рьяно стремились к добродетели, как они стремятся к удовольствиям.
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An econometrical analysis of the interdependencies between the demographic transition and democracy
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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: 1,0, University of St. Gallen, language: English, abstract: This paper investigates the effect of an exogenous demographic transition on democracy. Aspossible channels through which this influence makes an impact, education and per capitaincome and, to a lesser degree, urbanization were identified. These interdependencies were testedusing pooled ordinary least squares as well as fixed effects models on the basis of panel data. Inconclusion, the demographic transition affects democracy through the aforementioned channelsprimarily in poor countries that have experienced their demographic transition and subsequentdemocratization in the second half of the 20th century or later.