Polygyny and democracy: a cross-cultural comparison

Polygyny will be negatively associated with democracy at the upper level of political organization (190, 202).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
`UNKNOWN`	Supported	p<.001	Spearman's rho = -.40	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Democracy	Dependent	Form And Rules Of Government
Polygyny	Independent	Polygamy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Korotayev, Andrey V.	2002	Deep Christianization will be negatively associated with polygyny (195, 205).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bondarenko, Dmitri M.	2004	Among state societies, those with extended family structures will be less likely to have democratic communal leadership structures than those with nuclear family structures.	Marginally Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bondarenko, Dmitri M.	2004	Among societies with less than two levels of political hierarchy, those with large extended family structures will be less likely to have democratic communal leadership structures than those with nuclear family structures.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bondarenko, Dmitri M.	2004	Among societies with small mean community sizes, those with extended family structures will be less likely to have democratic communal leadership structures than those with nuclear family structures.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bondarenko, Dmitri M.	2004	Among societies with medium mean community sizes, those with extended family structures will be less likely to have democratic communal leadership structures than those with nuclear family structures.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author