Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time: Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset1

Julian Wucherpfennig, Nils B. Weidmann, Luc Girardin, Lars-Erik Cederman and Andreas Wimmer

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2011, vol. 28, issue 5, 423-437

Abstract: This article introduces GeoEPR, a geocoded version of the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) dataset that charts politically relevant ethnic groups across space and time. We describe the dataset in detail, discuss its advantages and limitations, and use it in a replication of Cederman, Wimmer and Min’s (2010) study on the causes of ethno-nationalist conflict. We show that territorial conflicts are more likely to involve groups that settle far away from the capital city and close to the border, while these spatial variables have no effect for governmental conflicts.

Keywords: ethnic conflict; ethnic groups; geographic information systems (GIS); group settlement patterns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894210393217

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