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The results presented in Table 2 also indicate that mean scores on our procedural conception of democracy outcome measure vary across countries after controlling for the other variables in our models. On average, respondents from Palestine were significantly more likely to cite procedural criteria as the hallmarks of democracy than respondents from Algeria and Lebanon (excluded category). Respondents from Jordan were the least likely to cite procedural criteria as the most important. 9 An additional possibility is that the relationships between individual level characteristics and conceptions of democracy vary across contexts. In Table 3 we estimate the column (1) and (4) specifications presented in Table 2 separately for each of the four geographical regions in our sample. Additionally we present tests of the equality of coefficients across models. 10 For the most part, the pattern of relationships between individual level characteristics and understanding of democracy are consistent across geographic units. However, there are some exceptions. The relationship between gender and our outcome is somewhat weaker, but still negative, in Algeria and Lebanon than in Jordan and Palestine (though this difference does not reach conventional levels of statistical significance in the extended model). In column (8) we also find evidence that respondents in Lebanon who viewed the economy as an important problem were more likely to define democracy in substantive terms. [TABLE 3 ABOUT HERE] The models presented in Table 3 also indicate that the relationship between education and understanding of democracy varies across geographic units (p.05). In contrast , among Algerian respondents the coefficient on education not only falls 9 Tests based on the Table 2, column (1) specification indicate that all country differences are statistically significant (p
short of conventional levels of statistical significance, but is also negative (p=.302 and .316 in the baseline and extended models, respectively). More broadly, respondents from Algeria appear to constitute a unique case. While the joint significance of the covariates used in each of the two model specifications we examine is clearly statistically significant for Jordan, Palestine, and Lebanon (p
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