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Empirical research of Political violence and its relations with the political, economic. social and cultural variables is one of the important topics in comparative political sociology. This research utilizes modernization approach with a comparative method to examine the correlation between modernization and political violence among Muslim Countries Using the secondary data of quality of life index (QOL) as an indicator of modernization, and secondary data of political violence, the results of canonical analysis show the correlation between two sets of variables: First, there is a correlation between modernization and political violence, second. there is a high degree of correlation among cultural and economical variables from the set of quality of life (QOL) data with interwar variable from the set of political violence data.

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