Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas; Yıldırım, Sadullah; … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2015
State and religion, two of the oldest institutions known to mankind, have historically had a close relationship with … relationship in recent centuries, the state-religion alliance remains strong in some societies. We use a political economy approach … and a unique dataset to examine the relationship between state and religion since the year 1000. We constructed the data …