The Contentious Politics of the Census in Consociational Democracies, 2017-2019

The contentious politics of the census in consociational democracies research project explored the relationship between the design of political power-sharing institutions and contention and mobilisation in relation to the census in four deeply divided societies: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Lebanon and Northern Ireland. This data collection consists of transcripts from interviews with politicians, policy-makers and civil society representatives involved in organising and campaigning in relation to censuses in the four case-study countries, plus some additional interviews with respondents who had relevant insights into censuses elsewhere.