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Replication Data for "Ethnicity, National Identity and the State: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa"

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Title Replication Data for "Ethnicity, National Identity and the State: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa"
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6WPVWI
 
Creator Green, Elliott
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The process by which people transfer their allegiance from ethnic to national identities is highly topical yet somewhat opaque. Here I argue that one of the key determinants of national identification is membership in a “core” ethnic group, or Staatsvolk, and whether or not that group is in power. I use the example of Uganda as well as Afrobarometer data to show that, when the core ethnic group is in power (as measured by the ethnic identity of the President), members of this group identify more with the nation, but when this group is out of power members actually identify more with their ethnic group. This finding has important implications for the study of nationalism, ethnicity and African politics.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Ethnicity
National Identity
Afrobarometer
 
Contributor Green, Elliott