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Quentin D. Atkinson — Publications

Quentin D. Atkinson — Publications

Cultural Evolution and the Economic Wealth of Nations

2023
Shared Cultural Ancestry Predicts the Global Diffusion of Democracy

2022
The Cultural Foundations of Modern Democracies

2019
Shared Cultural History as a Predictor of Political and Economic Changes Among Nation States

2016

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