Ah yes, socialism tends to correlate with wealth and democracy when we define wealthy democratic countries to be socialist. The positive countries are all Europ

Ah yes, socialism tends to correlate with wealth and democracy when we define wealthy democratic countries to be socialist. The positive countries are all European and Japan, while Turkey is almost two standard deviations negative despite having seriously stronger "socialist" institutions like worker protection, free healhcare and consumer rights. My hunch is, the writer started with regressing solely on socialism and tacked on democracy (which is very heavily correlated with wealth in Europe) after not getting the results he wanted. The whole thing is just meaningless analyses done on an almost identity relation.