Industrialization and ethnic change in the modern world
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2147759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elliott Green (0000-0002-0942-5756, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-197 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2017.1414277 |
| OpenAlex | W2776174931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 33 |
Despite the large recent attention given to ethnicity within the social sciences, the sources of modern ethnic change have remained opaque. Drawing upon social theory from Marx and Gellner, I argue here that industrialization incentivizes ethnic homogenization by lowering the relative value of land. Using carbon emissions per capita as a proxy for industrialization, I show that cross-country changes in ethno-linguistic fractionalization between 1961 and 1985 are negatively correlated with industrialization, and that this result is robust to the use of a variety of control variables, sub-samples and alternative measures of industrialization such as cement production, urbanization and agriculture as a percentage of GDP. In particular, I find no evidence for the direct role of the state in promoting ethnic homogenization, which adds to other recent evidence on how economic incentives may trump political ones as regards identity change, at least in the short- to medium term
Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Fractionalization · Incentive · Industrialisation · Market economy · Per capita · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Political Conflict and Governance · Religion and Society Interactions
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |