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Nils B. Weidmann
Researcher at University of Konstanz
Publications - 73
Citations - 4212
Nils B. Weidmann is an academic researcher from University of Konstanz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnic group & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 64 publications receiving 3578 citations. Previous affiliations of Nils B. Weidmann include Yale University & University of Freiburg.
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Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that horizontal inequalities between politically relevant ethnic groups and states at large can promote ethnonationalist conflict, and they introduce a new spatial method that combines their newly geocoded data on ethnic groups' settlement areas with spatial wealth estimates.
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The Geography of the International System: The CShapes Dataset
TL;DR: CShapes, a new dataset that provides historical maps of state boundaries and capitals in the post-World War II period, is described and three examples of how to use CShapes in political science research are given.
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Representing Ethnic Groups in Space: A New Dataset
TL;DR: It is shown that groups with a single territorial cluster according to GREG have a significantly higher risk of conflict and how the GREG dataset can be processed in the R statistical package without specific skills in GIS is demonstrated.
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Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time : Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset
TL;DR: GeoEPR as mentioned in this paper is a geocoded version of the EPR dataset that charts politically relevant ethnic groups across space and time, and it is used for ethnic power relations.
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A Closer Look at Reporting Bias in Conflict Event Data
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a quantitative assessment of reporting bias in a micro-level analysis of media-based event reports and those from military sources, showing that the purported violence-increasing effect of cellphone coverage is partly due to higher reporting rates of violence in cellphone-covered areas.