Constitutional Power-Sharing Dataset (CPSD)
As part of my projects on power-sharing and regional autonomy, I have created the Constitutional Power-Sharing Dataset (CPSD). This dataset contains detailed indicators on formal power-sharing provisions found in state constitutions and autonomy statutes targeting politically significant ethnic minorities. The current version (v.1.2) codes institutions mandating the inclusion of minorities into national government as well as providing them with influence over political decision-making. It contains data for minorities settling in 174 countries and for the time period between 1945 and 2016. I have finished collecting a new, thoroughly updated version of the CPSD. This will encompass significantly more group years (~180 countries, 1945-2018). Future versions will extend the coverage to other forms of constitutional peacebuilding, including regional autonomy, economic accommodation and cultural recognition. An interactive dashboard enabling researchers and the public to explore constitutional peacebuilding efforts since World War II more broadly is in development.
Standardized Ethnically Attributed Mass Surveys (SEAMS)
The Standardized Ethnically Attributed Mass Surveys (SEAMS) dataset integrates a large number of global and regional mass surveys, such as the World Values Surveys and the Afrobarometer. It serves two purposes. First, it provides standardized information for major public opinion concepts, for instance on (dis-)satisfaction with government institutions, vote intentions, ethnic identification, and perceptions of belonging to a discriminated group. Second, it provides systematic information on survey respondents’ ethnicity, region of residence, language, religion, and phenotype, which is linked to existing datasets, including EPR and CPSD. Thereby, it enables researchers to study how time-varying country- or group-level variables (such as democratization, GDP growth, and ethnic power-sharing) affect public opinion and vice versa. The current version (v1.1) integrates information from 98 unique survey waves, which together cover 2’071’315 respondents nested in 1372 country years and 148 countries. Future releases will add more variables (e.g., on left-right identification), surveys, and information on the heterogeneous question items underlying SEAMS’ standardized variables.
Significant Administrative Units Dataset (SAU)
To set up my project on regional autonomy, I created the Significant Administrative Unit Dataset (SAU). This compiles geo-referenced data on first-order administrative units, autonomous regions (at different administrative levels), and statistical regions. To collect this data, I combined my own geo-coding based on historical maps with publicly-available data provided by GADM. The resulting dataset contains more than 8900 unique administrative unit-periods and enables detailed investigations into spatial dynamics at the subnational level. I also used SEAMS to aggregate territorial power-sharing measures onto the ethnic group level for various indicators in my Constitutional Power-Sharing Dataset (CPSD). A first version of SAU covering the time period 1988-2018 (6152 unique admin unit-time periods) is available here.
Dominant Nationalist Movements Dataset (DNM)
As part of my project on dominant nationalism, I am currently in the process of collecting global data on dominant nationalist movements between 1946 (or independence) and 2023. For this purpose, I am leading a team of research assistants, together with Aya Abdelrahman. The Dominant Nationalist Movements (DNM) Dataset will include annual information on dominant nationalist movements’ identity basis, their demands (dominance/monopoly rule/exclusion of specific minorities/demographic engineering/assimilation/citizenship rights restrictions/expulsion/extermination/cultural/anti-autonomy/economic), their ideological justification, their territorial claims, their associated political parties, and their relationship to the government. The preliminary codebook can be accessed here.
Democracy Barometer, Version 6
During my time as research associate at the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, I coordinated a team-based effort to update the Democracy Barometer, which comprises more than 100 indicators for 70 countries. My responsibilities also included data validation and management of the project webpage. The data can be found here.
Ethnic Power Relations Dataset (2023)
During my time as Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich, I helped supervise the 2023 update of the Ethnic Power Relations Dataset. The data will soon be released here.
Replication Data
Replication data for all publications I have worked on can be found here.
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