What are the conditions under which governments form more ethnically inclusive coalitions? Previous contributions highlight strategic incentives as well as colonial and precolonial legacies as determinants of ethnically inclusive government coalitions but overlook the impact of political mobilization during the decolonization period. We argue that ideological exposure and commitment to the Pan-African anticolonial movement played a vital role in African leaders’ decisions to share power with other ethnic communities. We leverage novel data on African government leaders’ attendance at decolonization-era Pan-African conferences through a unique collection of conference delegate lists. Accounting for rival mechanisms, we find that African political elites who attended Pan-African conferences formed ethnically more inclusive government coalitions when they became government leaders. Our findings imply that the ideological influence and commitment signaled by conference attendance affected political leaders’ approach to form more inclusive governments and that ethnic coalitions have systematically unexplored legacies in the Pan-African decolonization movement.

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泛非意识形态在种族权力分享中的作用


政府在什么条件下组建更具种族包容性的联盟？以前的贡献强调了战略激励以及殖民和前殖民遗产是种族包容性政府联盟的决定因素，但忽视了非殖民化时期政治动员的影响。我们认为，意识形态曝光和对泛非反殖民运动的承诺在非洲领导人决定与其他族裔社区分享权力方面发挥了至关重要的作用。我们通过独特的会议代表名单集合，利用非洲政府领导人出席非殖民化时代泛非会议的新数据。考虑到相互竞争的机制，我们发现参加泛非会议的非洲政治精英在成为政府领导人后组建了种族更具包容性的政府联盟。我们的研究结果表明，出席会议所表明的意识形态影响和承诺影响了政治领导人组建更具包容性的政府的方法，并且民族联盟在泛非非殖民化运动中具有系统性地未被探索的遗产。