The Security-Force Ethnicity (SFE) Project: Introducing a new dataset

Paul Lorenzo Johnson and Ches Thurber
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Paul Lorenzo Johnson: US Air Force and US Strategic Command, USA
Ches Thurber: Northern Illinois University, USA

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2020, vol. 37, issue 1, 106-129

Abstract: The ethnic composition of state security forces is believed to have important effects on the dynamics of conflict processes, but data limitations have impeded our ability to test such hypotheses cross-nationally until now. To address this problem, the Security Force Ethnicity dataset provides time-series, group-level measures of the ethnic composition of military forces in the Middle East between 1946 and 2013. We draw on an extensive review of case studies and histories to produce unique ordinal codings for participation rates in the officer corps and in the rank and file. We demonstrate the utility of the data through empirical applications, examining the relationship between military ethnic composition and the incidence of coups and repression. Our findings illustrate the theoretical and empirical importance of disaggregating ethnic representation in the military from inclusion in other institutions of the state.

Keywords: Coup-proofing; dataset; ethnicity; ethnic stacking; military; repression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894217709012

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