This article fills this gap by analyzing and testing the effect of inequality between and within ethnic groups on the dismantling of democracy. These authors argue and empirically demonstrate that horizontal inequality increases the likelihood that a country experiences a civil war. The main sample consists of seventy-one countries that have been democratic during at least one year between 1960 and 2007. Countries in white are not included because they were nondemocratic during the full period covered (for example, China) or because they were coded as ethnically homogeneous (for example, Denmark) in the Ethnic Power Relations data set, on which I rely to identify ethnic groups. one cannot calculate inequality between ethnic groups in countries that do not have multiple ethnic groups. Data used was from Demographic and Health Survey, Afrobarometer, World Values Survey, Latinobarameter, International Social Survey Program and Comparative Study of the Electoral System. Depending on the state of the countries or the family, some question is not asked because of income is low. The finding concluded the unpacks of relationship between inequality and democracy, and argues that between-ethnic-group inequality harms democracies when within- ethnic-group inequality is low, but that its destabilizing effect diminishes as WIG
This article fills this gap by analyzing and testing the effect of inequality between and within ethnic groups on the dismantling of democracy. These authors argue and empirically demonstrate that horizontal inequality increases the likelihood that a country experiences a civil war. The main sample consists of seventy-one countries that have been democratic during at least one year between 1960 and 2007. Countries in white are not included because they were nondemocratic during the full period covered (for example, China) or because they were coded as ethnically homogeneous (for example, Denmark) in the Ethnic Power Relations data set, on which I rely to identify ethnic groups. one cannot calculate inequality between ethnic groups in countries that do not have multiple ethnic groups. Data used was from Demographic and Health Survey, Afrobarometer, World Values Survey, Latinobarameter, International Social Survey Program and Comparative Study of the Electoral System. Depending on the state of the countries or the family, some question is not asked because of income is low. The finding concluded the unpacks of relationship between inequality and democracy, and argues that between-ethnic-group inequality harms democracies when within- ethnic-group inequality is low, but that its destabilizing effect diminishes as WIG