Objective Definitions? How Afrobarometer’s Political Conceptualization of the Term ‘Democracy’ Removed Ethiopians from a Dataset

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Brief Overview

This paper interrogates the definition of democracy utilized by the Afrobarometer; it examines the removal of Ethiopian responses from a public dataset when respondents’ definitions of democracy deviated from liberal or procedural definitions.

Author

• Rei Gordon, Western Michigan University