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Brazil Is a Large, Ethnically Heterogeneous, Primarily Catholic Country

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Brazil is a large, ethnically heterogeneous, primarily Catholic country. It has a presidential system with proportional representation electoral laws. Based on this description and the hypothetical regression results below, what factors about Brazil encourage political extremism? What factors discourage political extremism? Which have no effect?
Table 1: Testing Theories of Political Extremism
Dependent Variable: Level of Political Extremism

 Variables  Model 1  Small population 0.29 Economic development 0.10 Ethnic diversity 0.27 Large agriculture sector 0.62 Catholic majority 0.04 Presidential regime 0.14 Single-member district plurality 0.53\begin{array}{lc}\text { Variables } & \text { Model 1 } \\\hline \text { Small population } & -0.29^{*} \\\text { Economic development } & 0.10 \\\text { Ethnic diversity } & 0.27^{*} \\\text { Large agriculture sector } & 0.62^{*} \\\text { Catholic majority } & 0.04 \\\text { Presidential regime } & -0.14^{*} \\\text { Single-member district plurality } & -0.53^{*} \\\hline\end{array}

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