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ETHNIC POWER RELATIONS
Access to State Power of Politically Relevant
Ethnic Groups, 1946-2005
The Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) data set
identifies all politically relevant ethnic groups and their access to state power
in every country of the world from 1946 to 2005. It includes annual data on
733 groups and codes the degree to which their representatives hold
executive-level state power — from total control of the government to overt
political discrimination.
Access data through the Ethnic Power Relations website.
Andreas Wimmer, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Brian Min. “Ethnic politics
and armed conflict: A configurational analysis.” American Sociological Review 74(2):316–337, 2009
Lars-Erik Cederman, Andreas Wimmer, and Brian Min. “Why do ethnic
groups rebel? New data and analysis", in World Politics 62(1), 2010, forthcoming.
Minor and Major Ethnic Armed Conflicts, 1946-2005
A recoding of the PRIO/Uppsala Armed Conflicts Data Set
to identify ethnic and secessionist conflicts. Compatible with the EPR
dataset.
Access data through the Ethnic Power Relations website.
FROM EMPIRE TO NATION-STATE (REPLICATION DATA)
Territorial Data, 1816-2001
Takes fixed geographical territories instead of countries
as units of analysis, enabling the tracing of a territory’s political and
economic development before and after independence from 1816 to 2001. This is the replication data for the article below.
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Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min. “From empire to nation-state: Explaining
war in the modern world, 1816-2001.” American
Sociological Review. 71(6):867-897, 2006.
1816-2001
Identifies the location and purpose of all 464
major wars since 1816, expanding substantially on previous efforts by
including wars fought in all polities, including pre-independent kingdoms and
empires. The data complements standard war datasets that characterize wars
only by the state participants that fight them.
Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min. “The location and purpose of wars around
the world, 1816-2001", in International Interactions 35(4), 2009, forthcoming.
FACEBOOK NETWORKS
Tastes, ties, and time
Contains information on different types of social networks of a cohort of ca. 1600 students, their ethno-racial, regional and socio-economic background, cultural tastes, academic orientations and so forth. The Facebook Networks data set was produced in collaboration with researchers from Harvard University.
Kevin Lewis, Jason Kaufman, Marco Gonzalez, Andreas Wimmer, and Nicholas Christakis, “Tastes, ties, and time: a new social network dataset using Facebook.com”, in Social Networks 30(4):330-342, 2008.