The Ethnic Stacking in Africa Dataset: When leaders use ascriptive identity to build military loyalty

Ethnicity has played a core role in the construction of African security institutions, with leaders often relying on coethnics to secure military loyalty. Such practices, termed ethnic stacking, likely have profound consequences for range important outcomes, from combat effectiveness coup propensity democratization. The Ethnic Stacking Africa Dataset provides first comprehensive data stacking practices all countries, independence 2018 (with 95.7% and 98.3% country years recovered). This new will allow scholars better understand militaries their behavior capabilities.