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Replication Data for: Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity and Nationalist Conflict

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Title Replication Data for: Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity and Nationalist Conflict
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SLWCLZ
 
Creator Cederman, Lars-Erik
Rüegger, Seraina
Schvitz, Guy
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Are past border changes responsible for today’s civil wars? Departing from conventional, state-centric research designs, this paper examines this question by focusing on “aggregate” ethnic groups, which are defined independently of state borders. Introducing a new index of “territorial fractionalization” that measures how fragmented such groups are across states, we postulate that higher fragmentation is linked to a greater risk of civil conflict. Furthermore, we expect that groups that experienced increases in fragmentation are particularly violence prone, as illustrated by post-imperial revisionism and other cases of irredentism and secession. To test our arguments, we combine geocoded data on ethnic settlement areas with our own newly collected data on international borders since 1886, complemented by mediation analysis based on ethno-nationalist claims. Covering ethnic groups around the world since 1946 through 2017, our findings are robust to the inclusion of control variables, fixed effects and the use of alternative historical ethnicity datasets.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Civil conflict
Geographic border change
Irredentism
 
Contributor Schvitz, Guy
 
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