Geography and Democracy
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"Geography and Democracy: The Spatial Diffusion of Political and Civil Rights" by O'Loughlin (n.d.). The purpose of the article was to present a discussion of findings related to social requisites of democracy with a "spatial analysis of democratic procedures and values" (p. 17). The author justified the study pointing out that as part of a second group of scholars from the quantitative school, there is a need to measure, document, map, and understand the distribution of democracy. This study used a dataset to gain information regarding the geographic structure and direction of the distribution by country, to determine the geography of democracy. Formal research questions and hypotheses were not stated. However the study goal was listed as: "to re-assert the value of the quantitative study in the field of political geography" and to "redress that imbalance (balance between theory and
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Approximate Word count = 615
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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