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Coethnic Bias and Wartime Informing |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/29314 |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Date of Distribution: |
2015-03-06 |
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1 |
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Bibliographic Citation: |
Lyall, Jason; Shiraito, Yuki; Imai, Kosuke, 2015, "Coethnic Bias and Wartime Informing", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29314, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Title: |
Coethnic Bias and Wartime Informing |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/29314 |
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Authoring Entity: |
Lyall, Jason (Yale University) |
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Shiraito, Yuki (Princeton University) |
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Imai, Kosuke (Princeton University) |
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Producer: |
Yuki Shiraito |
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Date of Production: |
2015 |
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Distributor: |
Harvard Dataverse |
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Distributor: |
The Journal of Politics Dataverse |
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Access Authority: |
Yuki Shiraito |
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Date of Deposit: |
2015-03-03 |
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Date of Distribution: |
2015-03 |
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Holdings Information: |
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29314 |
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Keywords: |
ethnicity, coethnic bias, intergroup conflict, multilevel modeling, public opinion, sensitive questions, wartime informing |
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Abstract: |
Information about insurgent groups is a central resource in civil wars: counterinsurgets seek it, insurgents safeguard it, and civilians often trade it. Yet despite its essential role in civil war dynamics, the act of informing is still poorly understood, due mostly to the classified nature of informant "tips" and the absence of reliable data on civilian attitudes. We use a 2,700 respondent survey experiment in 100 villages to examine attitudes toward the Guardians of Peace program, a widespread campaign by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan to recruit local informants. We find that coethnic bias - the systematic tendency to favor cooperation with coethnics - shapes attitudes about informing and beliefs about retaliation, especially among Tajik respondents. This bias persists even after adjusting for additional explanations and potential confounding variables, suggesting that identity considerations such as coethnicity influence attitudes toward a high-risk behavior in wartime settings. |
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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a> |
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analysis_main.R |
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Replication code to create figures for main analysis using posterior draws. |
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analysis_retaliation.R |
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Replication code to create the regression table for the analysis of the retaliation question. |
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data_files.zip |
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Data and posterior draws. |
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fig2.R |
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Replication code to create Figure 2 (description of the responses). |
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mcmc_main.R |
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Replication code to run MCMC algorithm for the main model. |
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mcmc_retaliation.R |
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Replication code to run MCMC algorithm for the analysis of the retaliation question. |
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