Green, Elliott D. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0942-5756
(2017)
The politics of ethnic identity in Sub-Saharan Africa.
International Development Working Paper Series (17-188).
Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
Recent literature on ethnic favouritism suggests that Presidents tend to target co-ethnics with patronage, especially in non-democracies. Coupled with evidence on the role of incentives in driving ethnic identity change, I propose that a change in the ethnic identity of presidents in nondemocracies should lead to ethnic switching among citizens towards the new ruling ethnic group. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from thirteen African countries, I show that change in the ethnic identity of the President leads to a shift of women identifying with the new ruling ethnic group of around 1.5% of the population in non-democracies, or on average 10% of the President’s ethnic group. This relationship is robust to the use of a variety of control variables and different specifications as well as the use of qualitative case study evidence from Ghana and Guinea; I also suggest it may be an underestimate due to data limitations
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/internationalDevelopment/publ... |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author |
| Divisions: | International Development |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 31 May 2018 15:12 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 23:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/88141 |
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