Replication data for: Measuring Ethnic Voting: Do Proportional Electoral Laws Politicize Ethnicity? (doi:10.7910/DVN/0AQGPL)

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Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Measuring Ethnic Voting: Do Proportional Electoral Laws Politicize Ethnicity?

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/0AQGPL

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2012-07-27

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2

Bibliographic Citation:

John D Huber, 2012, "Replication data for: Measuring Ethnic Voting: Do Proportional Electoral Laws Politicize Ethnicity?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0AQGPL, Harvard Dataverse, V2

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Measuring Ethnic Voting: Do Proportional Electoral Laws Politicize Ethnicity?

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/0AQGPL

Authoring Entity:

John D Huber

Producer:

John D Huber

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

John Huber

Depositor:

John Huber

Date of Deposit:

2012-07-09

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0AQGPL

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, Ethnic voting

Topic Classification:

ethnic voting

Abstract:

I develop four related measures of the “ethnicization” of electoral behavior. Each measure increases as ethnic identity becomes more central to vote choice, but the measures differ along two theoretical dimensions. The first dimension contrasts a group-based perspective (which focuses on cohesion in the voting patterns of group members) with a party-based perspective (which focuses on the composition of groups supporting political parties). The second dimension contrasts a fractionalization perspective (which assumes that more groups or parties cause more problems) with a polarization perspective (which assumes that problems are greatest when there are two equal-sized groups or parties). Using survey data to implement the measures in 43 countries, the article shows that proportional electoral laws are associated with lower levels of ethnicization – the opposite of what is widely assumed. I argue that the lower levels of ethnicization in PR systems should be unsurprising.

Country:

United States

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Data Access

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Citation

Title:

Huber, John D. 2012. “Measuring Ethnic Voting: Do Proportional Electoral Laws Politicize Ethnicity?” <i>American Journal of Political Science</i> 56 (4): 986–1001.

Identification Number:

10.1111/j.1540-5907.2012.00601.x

Bibliographic Citation:

Huber, John D. 2012. “Measuring Ethnic Voting: Do Proportional Electoral Laws Politicize Ethnicity?” <i>American Journal of Political Science</i> 56 (4): 986–1001.

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Huber AJPS replication data files.zip

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