Political succession [EA072]

Description: Rules of succession applying to the office of local headman (or a close equivalent), without reference to rules of succession prevailing on higher levels of political integration.

Codes [click for detailed code description]
Code # Code
1 Patrilineal heir
2 Matrilineal heir
3 Nonhereditary succession through appointment by some higher authority
4 Nonhereditary succession on the basis primarily of seniority or age
5 Nonhereditary succession through influence, e.g., of wealth or social status
6 Nonhereditary succession through election or some other mode of formal consensus
7 Nonhereditary succession through informal consensus
9 Absence of any office resembling that of a local headman

To display the datapoints on a tree, select a language phylogeny or classification here then click "submit".

You may combine this variable with a different variable by selecting on in the list below and clicking "Submit".

Dataset:
Murdock et al. 1999 'Ethnographic Atlas'
Variable:
Political succession [EA072]
Description:
Rules of succession applying to the office of local headman (or a close equivalent), without reference to rules of succession prevailing on higher levels of political integration.
Values:
1 Patrilineal heir 408
2 Matrilineal heir 101
3 Nonhered: appointed by auth. 43
4 Nonhered: seniority 28
5 Nonhered: influence 45
6 Nonhered: election 116
7 Nonhered: inf. consensus 87
9 Absence of office 109
Datapoint Society Language family Details Focal year Subcase