Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country*

By J. Fearon. 2003

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Rehabilitating Duverger’s Theory (2006, methodology): “Unlike the existing literature, which typically measures the number of ethnic groups using the index of ethnolinguistic fractionalization, we employ a newer, and arguably better, measure of ethnic fragmentation drawn from Fearon (2003).”
Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization (2011, methodology): “Easterly and Levine (1997) used the index of fractionalization as a measure of diversity, and the measure has been used in several different empirical studies of conflict (see, e.g., Collier and Hoffler (2004), Fearon and Laitin (2003) and Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004).”
Representing ethnic groups in space: A new dataset (2010, methodology): “It is unclear why the Fearon dataset excludes this group, given that it fits most of his inclusion criteria (Fearon, 2003: 201).”
The stability and breakup of nations: a quantitative analysis (2011, methodology): “For the use of linguistic distances in economics, see Fearon (2003), Ginsburgh et al. (2005) and Desmet et al. (2009b).”
Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars (2005, background): “2 Montalvo and Reynal-Querol (2000), Alesina et al. (2003), or Fearon (2003).”
Ancestry, Language and Culture (2015, positive): “From the two measures of linguistic proximity, following Fearon (2003) we use the following transformation to obtain corresponding measures of linguistic distance ranging from 0 to 1: T LD = r 15 CN 15 (16) Here T LD refers to tree-based linguistic distance and we similarly de…ne the weighted…”