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

cunningham10shared.gifJulian Wucherpfennig, Nils B. Weidmann, Luc Girardin, Lars-Erik Cederman and Andreas Wimmer, 2011
Conflict Management and Peace Science 28 (5)

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.

Additional Information

The GeoEPR Dataset