Political complexity and village community:  test of an hypothesis

"As the political complexity of a society as a whole increases, so does the number of political offices within its constituent communities" (43)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Phi coefficient	Not Supported	above .10	.26	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Community Political Offices	`UNKNOWN`	Community Structure, Community Heads, Community Councils, Local Officials
Political Complexity	`UNKNOWN`	Territorial Hierarchy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Befu, Harumi	1966	". . . the number of political offices in a village community would be equal to or greater than the number of jurisdictional levels in it" (47)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Blumberg, Rae Lesser	1972	"When technology, as measured by subsistence economy is held constant . . . [and we] cross tabulate familial complexity with . . . size of community . . . [and with] political complexity, gammas are significantly positive for low levels of technology and nonsignificant for higher levels" (909)	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hill, Kim	1979	Various socio-economic variables (agricultural dependence, fixity of settlement, community size, population density, and class stratification) will predict political complexity (279).	Partially supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Otterbein, Keith F.	1968	". . . the higher the level of political complexity, the less the likelihood of war being initiated by anyone in the political community" (282)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Befu, Harumi	1966	". . . increasing political complexity at higher levels [will] entail more . . . delegation of authority and increased delegation of authority [will] be handled by creating new administrative levels within the village" (47)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author