Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/69567 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4039
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
My empirical results in Potrafke (2012) confirm past conclusions that Muslim-majority countries are less likely to be democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam and democracy. In his comment on my study, Hanusch indicates that he believes I was using the POLITY IV index. He has not realized, as I made most clear, that the purpose of my study was to show results based on new data from Cheibub et al. (2010). Hanusch claims to have reversed the conclusion that having a Muslim majority is associated with having autocratic government. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch moreover uses data that do not appear to exist, at least in the claimed sources. I update my estimates to address issues that Hanusch raises. My new results confirm the conclusion that countries with Muslim majorities are less likely to be democracies. In deriving this result, I do not follow the strategy proposed by Hanusch of excluding from the data sample the countries in the heartland of Islam.
Subjects: 
political institutions
Islam
JEL: 
Z12
O11
P16
P48
F59
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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