The relationship between economic and political development in nonindustrialized societies

"[There is a] relationship between relative importance of agriculture and differentiation of political authority" (240)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
phi	Supported	p<.005	.60	One-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Differentiation Of Political Authority	Association	Sociocultural Trends
Relative Importance Of Agriculture	Association	Agriculture

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Ember, Melvin	1963	"[There is a] relationship between relative importance of agriculture and level of political integration" (243	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1963	". . . [there is a positive] correlation between upper limit of community size differentiation of political authority" (239)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheehan, Oliver	2023	There is a pattern of differentiation or unification of religious and political authorities over time.	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hrnčíř, Václav	2025	Agriculture will have a strong positive relationship to political complexity	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheehan, Oliver	2023	In Austronesian societies, religious and political authorities are mutually interdependent.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author