Why do people rebel? Grievances

Instructions

• For the data, right-click, “save/download file as…”
• Open the data
• Complete all of the tasks associated with that data and keep track of your answers / images
• Once you are done, go on Canvas and answer the questions related to the assignment
  • the Canvas assignment is timed; if you open it prior to completing the tasks you will run out of time

Skills used:

• filtering data
• counting categories, percents
• summary statistics
• grouped summary, statistic

My awkward Google Sheets video tutorials are here

Warning

You must complete all of the tasks here BEFORE opening the Canvas quiz; otherwise, you will run out of time!

Task 1: Manifestos

Pick two manifestos from the list below and skim them. The manifestos themselves can be found at this link. Please note some of these contain extremely offensive content. The people/groups included are:

• Rumiyah, the ISIS magazine

• The New Irish Republican Army

• Osama bin Laden “Letter to America”

• South Carolina terrorist, Dylann Roof

• Manifesto of the Christchurch mosque terrorist attack

• Manifesto of the 2019 el Paso, Walmart terrorist attack

• Elliot Rodger, the “incel” manifesto

• Eco-extremist group in Mexico, Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje

1. In two paragraphs, describe the following. How would you say these groups/people motivate and explain their actions? Do the two manifestos you picked do so similarly or in different ways? Include at least two quotes as examples. (5 points)

Task 2: Ethnic power relations

You’re going to work with data from the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) dataset. The dataset contains information on politically relevant ethnic groups around the world for a select period of time.

• The data: EPR dataset

Variable	Description
statename	Country
from	Starting year for time period
to	Ending year for time period
group	Name of ethnic group
size	Group size as a % of total population in that time period
status	Access to state power in that time period
reg_aut	Does group have regional autonomy in this period?

Note

These are the relevant variables in the dataset, the other ones you can ignore

Questions

Using the dataset, answer the following questions:

2. Count the number of groups by status. What PERCENT of groups across the whole dataset are categorized as “powerless”? Note: It is OK to treat each row as a different “group”/observation. Don’t worry about “double-counting” groups, it’s OK if you do. If you don’t know what I mean by this you are probably OK to begin with. (1 point)

3. Look through some of the groups that are categorized as “powerless” in the dataset. In your opinion, is being a group that is “powerless” enough to generate grievances? Or can a group be “powerless” and not be aggrieved? (2 points)

4. Filter the data so you are only looking at Iraq between 1990 and 2003. What size (as a PERCENT) was the most powerful ethnic group in this country during this period? (1 point)

5. Calculate the average ethnic group size, broken down by whether or not the group has regional autonomy. About how much smaller, on average, are groups with regional autonomy than groups without? Report as a percent point difference (e.g., 20% - 15% = 5%). (1 point)

6. Filter so you are only looking at ethnic groups that have held monopoly power and are less than 50% of the population¹. Create a variable that tells you how long each of these groups has been in power. Which group has had monopoly power for the longest time period in this dataset? Name of the group exactly as it appears in the data. (1 point).

Footnotes

1. Note: to filter a quantity, use “filter by condition”