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Vanhanen, Tatu. "Climate and Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61074_index.html>

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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Montesquieu related some inequalities in human conditions to climatic differences. It is argued in this paper that the ultimate roots of global inequalities in the level of democracy can be partly traced to global differences in climatic conditions through two intervening variables measuring differences in the average mental abilities of populations (national IQ) and in the distribution of economic and intellectual power resources (IPR). The hypothesis is tested by empirical data on four variables: annual mean temperature (MT), national IQ, the index of power resources (IPR), and the index of democratization (ID). The data cover 170 contemporary countries. Correlation and regression analyses are used to test the hypothesis. The results show that a significant part of the variation in ID can be traced via IPR to national IQ and further to MT. The results imply that because of these natural constraints it would be extremely difficult or impossible to achieve the same level of democratization in all countries.

Treating Treaties Differently: Explaining Variation of Treaty Implementation at the Domestic Level

The Intelligence Services as a Democratic Indicator - Main Differences between Intelligence in a Democratic Country and in Non-Democratic One