Silver and Dowley Twenty Years On: Ethnic Disaggregation, Civil Society, Trust in Government, and Protest – A Comparative Political Analysis of 40 Ethnically Heterogeneous States

Twenty years ago, Silver and Dowley called for the disaggregation of survey responses, showing there were vast and statistically significant differences between ethnic majorities and minorities within states. Their work with the World Values Survey Data cautioned against survey response aggregation when conducting research on trust, social capital, mass psychology, and more. They find that survey responses among ethnic groups within nations are often more pronounced than those between nations. This dissertation augments these findings 20 years on, first replicating a newer version of their former findings.