| legfig {interactionTest} | R Documentation |
Replication data for Clark and Golder (2006)
Description
District magnitude and ethnic heterogeneity data from a pooled sample of established democracies in the 1990s. Data originally from Clark and Golder (2006).
Format
A data frame with 754 rows and 33 variables:
- country
country name
- countrynumber
country number
- year
year of observation
- enep1
electoral parties
- eneg
ethnic heterogeneity
- logmag
district magnitude
- legelec
legislative election
- preselec
presidential election
- regime
regime as of 31 Dec of given year (0=democracy, 1=dictatorship)
- regime_leg
regime type at time of leg. election (0=democracy, 1=dictatorship)
- eighties
election in 1980s closest to 1985
- nineties
election in 1990s closest to 1995
- old
elections in countries that did not transition to democracy in 1990s
- avemag
average district magnitude
- districts
number of electoral districts
- enep
effective number of ethnic groups fearon
- enep_others
n/a
- enpp
parliamentary parties - uncorrected
- enpp_others
n/a
- enpp1
parliamentary parties - corrected
- enpres
effective number of presidential candidates
- medmag
median district magnitude
- newdem
first election of new democracy
- proximity1
proximity - continuous
- proximity2
proximity - dichotomous
- seats
assembly size
- upperseats
number of upper tier seats
- uppertier
percentage of uppertier seats
- uppertier_eneg
uppertier*eneg
- logmag_eneg
logmag*eneg
- proximity1_enpres
proximity1*enpres
- twoelections
n/a
- twoelections1
n/a
...
Source
Clark, William R., and Matt Golder. 2006. "Rehabilitating Duverger's Theory." Comparative Political Studies 39(6): 679-708.