Research Note: Measuring the Impacts of Colonialism: A New Data Set for the Countries of Africa and Asia

Ziltener, Patrick; Künzler, Daniel; Walter, André

doi:10.5195/jwsr.2017.683

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“…Models 4, 5 and 6 test different variants of the colonial economics and politics explanations. Given that the variables from the Ziltener, et al [2017] dataset are restricted to colonies in Asia and Africa, we separate them first. Model 4 tests those variables, revealing that both the economic and social transformation indicators are significant and in the direction predicted.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The last part of our analysis helps us adjudicate among all of the different theories by putting the significant variables from the prior tests into the same models. But because of the spatial limitations with the Ziltener et al [2017] data, we run two different models. The first test, Model 7, keeps the Ziltener variables and thereby tests economic development, metropolitan penetration, IGOs in the world, regional emulation, and relative metropolitan strength.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unfortunately it is difficult to obtain good data on colonial elite strength and interests, but we can use a variety of proxy variables. A new dataset on various indicators on colonies in Africa and Asia gathered by Ziltener et al [2017] is helpful here. While this dataset only includes colonies in Africa and Asia, it is a unique and rare dataset on the colonial period, and is the best option available at this point.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A strong settler presence means a weaker local elite because settlers displaced them, while a weaker settler presence means a stronger local colonial elite because only locals can be deployed to occupy lower-level and mid-level positions in the colonial bureaucracy. Accordingly, we use Ziltener et al ’s [2017] variable ForPre (for “foreign presence”) which is a categorical variable measuring the presence of settlers, where 0 indicates that less than 1% of the population were settlers and 4 is the highest possible score indicating that 10% or more of the population were settlers. We hypothesize a negative relationship between this score and anticolonial nationalism.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Anticolonial Nationalism From Imagined Communities to Colonial Conflict

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Watson²

2019

Arch. eur. sociol.

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Nationalism in the modern world began in European metropoles but spread throughout the world system in the form of anticolonial nationalism. While many studies have explored the former, this essay systematically examines the latter. Based upon an original database of 124 cases, we test multiple theories that might account for the origins and spread of anticolonial nationalism. We adjudicate between cultural-cognitive approaches emphasizing the discursive bases for national imaginings on the one hand and, on the other, theories that emphasize political-economic dynamics and elite conflict. Our time-series regression analysis suggests that while cultural-cognitive approaches best account for the initial wave of anticolonial nationalism, from 1700 to 1878, theories stressing political-economic dynamics and elite conflict explain anticolonial nationalism in the later wave, from 1879 to 1990. The analysis suggests that theories of nationalism need to be attentive to the historical specificity of their claims.

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Section: Data and Variablesmentioning

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Anticolonial Nationalism From Imagined Communities to Colonial Conflict

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2019

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“…A more fine-grained coding could consider the exercise of different levels of political domination. For instance, Ziltener et al (2017) code for five levels: (0) no colonial domination, (1) semicolonialism, (2) indirect rule with little interference in internal affairs, (3) indirect rule with strong interference in internal affairs, (4) direct rule. 14.…”

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Who Are the People? Defining the Demos in the Measurement of Democracy

Koenig‐Archibugi

2020

Political Studies

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Large-scale efforts to measure the democratic nature of polities across space and time are most useful when they reflect the variety of conceptions of democracy developed by political theorists. Traditionally, the attention of political theorists as well as political scientists focused on what it means for the people to rule, to the neglect of the equally important question of who the relevant people should be. In recent years, however, an increasing number of political theorists have tackled the problem of defining the demos and offered a wide range of answers. The article argues that empirical democracy measurement projects should take into account the variety of conceptions of the demos debated today instead of assuming consensus on this dimension. It also discusses how this can be done systematically. The arguments are developed with reference to the most ambitious and comprehensive democracy measurement project yet: Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem).

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