Roots of Autocracy

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Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of thousands of years ago, contributed to the differential formation of pre-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10818

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Institutions and Growth ; Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
• Subject: institutions ; diversity ; economic growth ; autocracy ; Out-of-Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Development

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Galor, Oded ; Klemp, Marc
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/170802
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET