Adam Smith, in Wealth of Nations, observed that even religious
monopolies become weak when they are not challenged by competition.
Data to illustrate this point is from 21 countries in which the
percentages of Catholics in the populations varied from a low 1.2% to
a high 97.6%.
Usage
ex1611
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 21 observations on the following 4 variables.
Country
a character vector indicating the country
PctCath
percent Catholics in the population
P2PRatio
priest to parishioner ratio
PctIndig
percent clergy indigenous
References
Gill, A.J. (1994). Rendering unto Caesar? Religious Competition and
Catholic Political Strategy in Latin America, 1962--79, American
Journal of Political Science38(2): 403--425.