Ricart-Huguet, Joan and Green, Elliott D. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0942-5756
(2018)
Taking it personally: the effect of ethnic attachment on preferences for regionalism.
Studies in Comparative International Development, 53 (1).
pp. 67-89.
ISSN 0039-3606
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Abstract
This article presents three related findings on regional decentralization. We use an original dataset collected in Uganda to establish, for the first time in a developing country context, that individuals have meaningful preferences over the degree of regional decentralization they desire, ranging from centralism to secessionism. Second, multilevel models suggest that a small share of this variation is explained at the district and ethnic group levels. The preference for regional decentralization monotonically increases with an ethnic group or a district’s average ethnic attachment. However, the relationship with an ethnic group or district’s income is U-shaped: both the richest and the poorest groups desire more regionalism, reconciling interest-based and identity-based explanations for regionalism. Finally, we show that higher individual ethnic attachment increases preferences for regionalism using fixed effects and a new matching method.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/journal/12116 |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 Springer Science+Business Media |
| Divisions: | International Development |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2017 11:15 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 09:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/80339 |
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