Look at the Results in Table 1 Below -Imagine You Are Watching a Political Talk Show (Perhaps One

question 1

Multiple Choice

Look at the results in Table 1 below.
Table 1: Culture and Democratic Survival
Dependent variable: Probability of Democratic Survival


$\begin{array}{lc}\hline \text { Independent variables } & \text { Model 1 } \\\hline & \\\text { Muslim majority } & -0.46(0.28) \\\text { Catholic majority } & -0.41^{*}(0.20) \\\text { GDP per capita } & 0.0001^{* *}(0.00003) \\\text { Growth in GDP per capita } & 0.02^{* * *}(0.01) \\\text { Oil producer } & 0.43(0.31) \\\text { Effective number of ethnic groups } & -0.09 * * *(0.05) \\\text { Constant } & 1.88^{*}(0.28) \\\text { Observations } & 1784 \\\text { Log-likelihood } & -161.41 \\\hline \text { Robust standard errors in parentheses. "greater than } 90 \% \text { significant; } \\{ }^{* *} \text { greater than } 95 \% \text { significant; }{ }^{* *} \text { greater than } 99 \% \text { significant. } \\\hline\end{array}$
-Imagine you are watching a political talk show (perhaps one of the ones that are shown on Sunday morning, or perhaps The Daily Show) and the pundits are discussing problems with the democratization process in Iraq. One of the guests claims that a key factor making it unlikely that democracy could survive in Iraq (even if it were established there) . is that there are too many different ethnic groups in the country. Does the empirical evidence in Table 1 support such a claim?

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