ethnicity

New Spatial Data on Ethnicity: Introducing SIDE

Research on ethnic politics and political violence has benefited substantially from the growing availability of cross-national, geo-coded data on ethnic settlement patterns. However, because existing datasets represent ethnic homelands using …

Digital Discrimination: Political bias in Internet service provision across ethnic groups

The global expansion of the Internet is frequently associated with increased government transparency, political rights, and democracy. However, this assumption depends on marginalized groups getting access in the first place. Here we document a …

Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict: The Ethnic Power Relations Data Set Family

This article introduces the new Family of Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) data sets, version 2014, which is the latest in a series of data sets on ethnicity that have stimulated civil war research in the past decade. The EPR Family provides data on …