Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time: Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset

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  • Julian Wucherpfennig
    Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Nils B. Weidmann
    Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, USA & Center for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway
  • Luc Girardin
    Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Lars-Erik Cederman
    Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Andreas Wimmer
    Department of Sociology, UCLA, USA

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<jats:p> This article introduces GeoEPR, a geocoded version of the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) dataset that charts politically relevant ethnic groups across space and time. We describe the dataset in detail, discuss its advantages and limitations, and use it in a replication of Cederman, Wimmer and Min’s (2010) study on the causes of ethno-nationalist conflict. We show that territorial conflicts are more likely to involve groups that settle far away from the capital city and close to the border, while these spatial variables have no effect for governmental conflicts. </jats:p>

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