The Influence of Ethnic Segmentation on Development
Abstract
Ethnic fragmentation and arrested development are pervasive features of the postcolonial state. This study explores the thesis implicit to modernization theory that the relationship between ethnic segmentation-an integral feature of colonial space and of the post-colonial states that inherited them-and development is negligible. A number of quantitative methods are used to test the null hypothesis that no relationship exists between development and ethnic fragmentation: cluster analysis is used to group countries with respect to development, and analyses of variance and regression analysis are used to test for statistically significant differences between country clusters with respect to degree of ethnic segmentation. The statistical findings reported in this paper "falsify" the null hypothesis in a Popperian sense: evidence suggests that a relationship does exist between level of development and degree of ethnic fragmentation. While this study cannot establish the direction of causality between these phenomena, it does refute the view inherent to modernization approaches that ethnicity is inconsequential to development and nation-building in the post colonial state.
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