Correlates of political complexity

"Political complexity is directly related to the degree of external threat" (693)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Pearson’s product-moment correlation	Not Supported	above .10	-.04	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
External Threat	`UNKNOWN`	Instigation Of War
Political Complexity	`UNKNOWN`	Territorial Organization

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Silver, Burton B.	1978	In societies of high political complexity, complex games will be postively associated with religious differentiation, demographic complexity, and external threat, and negatively associated with social differentiation (97).	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Barry III, Herbert	2003	Controlling on four types of complexity, external warfare is positively associated with government levels (126)	`UNKNOWN`	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ross, Marc Howard	1986	The presence of female controlled organizations and positions will be positively associated with socioeconomic complexity and negatively associated with external conflict and intercommunity marriage (843, 848).	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Abrahamson, Mark	1969	"Political complexity is inversely related to pervasiveness of the kinship organization" (692)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Otterbein, Keith F.	1971	"[There is a] relationship between political complexity . . . and the frequency of attacking" (114)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author