This project owes a great deal to the work of Fernand de Varennes in compiling and detailing the legal and actual status of minority language groups around the world. Much of the analysis that went into determining how to break down linguistic policy into measurable pieces came from the constitutional excerpts provided and the numerous legislative situations outlined in his work Language, Minorities and Human Rights. Other major contributors to the literature consulted during this process were Paul Brass, Heinz Kloss and Brian Weinstein. You will find the references for all three in the scale development bibliography, along with numerous other scholars whose work provided more pieces of the puzzle.
On the language group side, this project could not have been put together without the volume of information available in Ted Gurr’s Minorities at Risk study. The groups whose language status is coded on the CLIPR datasets were taken directly from that study as it existed at the time — both for use in the original protest/rebellion study and to make the datasets more widely useful for other researchers in the areas of language policy and ethnic conflict.
The references can be found on the following pages:
Bibliography for Constitutional Provisions
Bibliography for Countries and Groups
Bibliography for Scale Development
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