comment on this:of the variation in levels of democracy. Protestant countries tend to be rich, have high educational levels and a high proportion of people employed in the knowledge sector. And a demographic dominance of Protestants is favourable to democracy largely because it is linked with socioeconomic conditions that strengthen emphasis on emancipative values. This can be demonstrated by analysing the determinants of the strength of people's emancipative values, using World Values Survey data. As the multilevel model in Table 9.2 shows, if someone has a high level of education, this factor strengthens this person's emancipative values. The same is true for people living in countries where the average person's action resources are large. This contextual factor, too, strengthens people's emancipative values. Living in a