Measuring ethnic fractionalization in Africa

By Daniel N. Posner. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Development, Information Systems

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In Demography

1. Amy R Poteete
2. U. Efobi
3. V. Bove
4. Leandro Elia
5. Evans Stephen Osabuohien
6. Ravi Bhavnani
7. Tse-hsin Chen
8. Michael Bratton

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1. Amy R Poteete
2. V. Bove
3. Evans Stephen Osabuohien
4. U. Efobi
5. Leandro Elia
6. Tse-hsin Chen
7. Ravi Bhavnani
8. Michael Bratton

In Information Systems

1. Amy R Poteete
2. U. Efobi
3. V. Bove
4. Leandro Elia
5. Evans Stephen Osabuohien
6. Tse-hsin Chen
7. Ravi Bhavnani
8. Michael Bratton

Citations in the corpus

• Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana (2009, methodology): “The standard data count latent but inactive groups as equivalent to mobilised groups and fail to differentiate between groups involved in longstanding rivalries despite common or related languages (Posner, 2004).”
• Africa's Money in Africa (2013, methodology): “As suggested in some studies (e.g. La Porta et al., 1999; Posner, 2004; Acemoglu and Johnson, 2005; Osabuohien, 2011; etc.), ethnolinguistic fractionalisation, legal origin and formalism and settler mortality were used as instrumental variables for institutional quality.”
• Interventions to promote social cohesion in sub-Saharan Africa (2010, background): “This is a different notion of social cohesion than one measured simply in terms of the number of potential lines of cleavage (Easterly and Levine 1997; Posner 2004).”
• Representing ethnic groups in space: A new dataset (2010, background): “Spatial data on ethnic groups In the literature, ethnicity has typically entered analysis of conflict processes either as qualitative, historical entities or as quantitative indices, such as the ethno linguistic fractionaliza tion index (ELF, Fearon, 2003; Posner, 2004).”
• THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY OF AFRICA* (2009, background): “Posner, ‘Measuring ethnic fractionalization in Africa’, American Journal of Political Science, 48 (2004), 849–63. 61 Pierre Englebert, ‘Pre-colonial institutions, post-colonial states, and economic development in tropical Africa’, Political Research Quarterly, 53 (2000), 7–36; Englebert, State Legit”
• Economic versus Cultural Differences: Forms of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision (2010, background): “However, ethnic categories often nest inside broader categories, and as Posner (2004) demonstrates, choices about which groups to include can have a significant impact on the conclusions one draws about the relationship between group diversity and outcomes.”
• ETHNIC DIVERSITY, PUBLIC SPENDING, AND INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT FOR THE WELFARE STATE: A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE (2013, neutral): “In reaction to these criticisms, new data sets have been constructed by Annett (2001), Yeoh (2001), Posner (2002, 2004b), Alesina et al. (2003), Fearon (2003) and Selway (2011).”
• Who’s Asking? Interviewer Coethnicity Effects in African Survey Data (2016, background): “Figure 6 extends this analysis to the broader sample of Afrobarometer countries.16 Drawing on the coding of politically relevant groups provided in Posner (2004), we compare effect sizes in noncoethnic dyads where both the interviewer and the respondent are from politically relevant groups (Black…”
• Voting intentions in Africa: ethnic, economic or partisan? (2012, methodology): “To capture social context, we employ statistics that measure the fractionalisation of ‘politically relevant ethnic groups’ (PREG) (Posner, 2004)(14) and the degree of ethnic polarisation, the maximal when individuals belong to one of two rival groups of the same size, the former maximal when every i”
• Migration, diversity, and economic growth (2017, methodology): “We refer the interested reader to Ratha and Shaw (2007) and Ratha et al. (2016) for a thorough description of the methodology and a more comprehensive overview than we can possibly give here.”
• Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Local Public Goods (2018, background): “These ethnic divisions have been relevant for political behavior at least since the introduction of multiparty elections in 1994 (Posner, 2004), partly due to their regional segregation.”