Lipset: Lipset's indicators for the survival of democracy during the...

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Lipset's indicators for the survival of democracy during the inter-war period.

Description

This dataset is taken from Lipset (1959), as used by Rihoux and De Meur (2009), Cronqvist and Berg-Schlosser (2009) and Ragin (2009).

Usage

data(LR)
data(LC)
data(LM)
data(LF)

Format

A data frame containing 18 rows and the following 6 columns:

DEV	Level of development: it is the GDP per capita (USD) in the raw data, calibrated in the
	binary crisp version to 0 if below 550 USD and 1 otherwise. For the multi-value crisp
	version, two thresholds were used: 550 and 850 USD.
URB	Level of urbanization: percent of the population in towns with 20000 or more
	inhabitants, calibrated in the crisp versions to 0 if below 50% and 1 if above.
LIT	Level of literacy: percent of the literate population, calibrated in the crisp versions
	to 0 if below 75% and 1 if above.
IND	Level of industrialization: percent of the industrial labor force, calibrated in the
	crisp versions to 0 if below 30% and 1 if above.
STB	Government stability: a “political-institutional” condition added to the previous
	four “socioeconomic” ones. The raw data has the number of cabinets which governed
	in the period under study, calibrated in the crisp versions to 0 if 10 or above and to 1
	if below 10.
SURV	Outcome: survival of democracy during the inter-war period: calibrated to 0 if negative,
	and 1 if positive raw data.

Details

There are four different versions of the Lipset data:

LR	contains the raw data
LC	is the same data calibrated to binary crisp sets
LM	is calibrated to multi-value sets
LF	is calibrated to fuzzy-sets

References

Lipset, S. M. (1959) “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy”, American Political Science Review vol.53, pp.69-105.

Cronqvist, L.; Berg-Schlosser, D. (2009) “Multi-Value QCA (mvQCA)”, in Rihoux, B.; Ragin, C. (eds.) Configurational Comparative Methods. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques, SAGE.

Rihoux, B.; De Meur, G. (2009) “Crisp Sets Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA)”, in Rihoux, B.; Ragin, C. (eds.) Configurational Comparative Methods. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques, SAGE.

Ragin, C. (2009) “Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using Fuzzy-Sets (fsQCA)”, in Rihoux, B.; Ragin, C. (eds.) Configurational Comparative Methods. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques, SAGE.

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