Variable: Culture Zone
QoG Code: (wel_culture)
Description:
Meaning: Culture zone scheme, attributing each country to one of ten distinct culture zones created on the basis of religious traditions, imperial/colonial legacies and ethno-linguistic composition. Source: Classification invented and developed in Welzel, Freedom Rising (2013: 23-34), www.cambridge.org/welzel (Online Appendix, p. 8-11).
Coding:
- Reformed West (Western European societies strongly affected by the Reformation)
- New West (overseas offshoots of Western Europe)
- Old West (mostly Catholic parts of Western Europe being core parts of the Roman Empire)
- Returned West (Catholic and Protestant parts of post-communist Europe returning to the EU)
- Orthodox East (Christian Orthodox or Islamic parts of the post-communist world, mostly parts of the former USSR)
- Indic East (parts of South and South East Asia under the historic influence of Indian culture)
- Islamic East (regions of the Islamic world that have been parts of the Arab/Caliphate, Persian and Ottoman empires)
- Sinic East (parts of East Asia under the historic influence of Chinese culture)
- Latin America (Central and South America and the Caribbean)
- Sub-Saharan Africa (African countries South of the Sahara).
Remarks: A cluster analysis asking to place countries into ten different clusters on the basis of religious traditions, imperial legacies and ethno-linguistic composition variables produces a ninety percent overlapping classification of countries.
Type of variable: Categorical
Last updated by source: 2014-03-01
Categories:
Civil Society/Population/Culture
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| Dataset |
No. Countries |
| Standard time-series: |
104 |