Rice farming, culture and democracy
This paper proposes that societies with a rice farming legacy tend to be less democratic today than societies with a wheat farming legacy. We argue that rice cultivation is associated with the adoption of a collectivist culture, which in turn fosters greater conformity pressures on political norms a...
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Main Authors: | Ang, James B., Madsen, Jakob B., Wang, Wen |
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Other Authors: | School of Social Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2022
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159474 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
Language: | English |
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