Wat we eigenlijk zochten :
http://www.nd.edu/~adutt/activities/...Democracy1.pdf
Citaat:
Democracy and Happiness: What Causes What?
Ronald Inglehart
University of Michigan
Abstract
During the years before the surge of democratization in 1987-1993, reported happiness levels showed strong nation-level correlations with measures of democracy such as the Freedom House political rights and civil liberties scores: the correlations were in the .7 to .8 range. This could be interpreted as meaning that: (1) living under democratic institutions makes people happy; or (2) high levels of subjective well-being are conducive to democratic institutions; or (3) the correlation could be spurious, reflecting the fact that both subjective well-being and democracy are strongly correlated with some other variable such as high levels of economic development.
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Paul