NF: Class voting in post-World War era

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Class voting in post-World War era

Description

This fuzzy dataset is an adaptation from Ragin (2005, 2008), the data itself being attributed to Nieuwbeerta (1995).

Usage

data(NF)

Format

A data frame containing 12 cases (countries) and the following 5 columns:

A degree of membership in the set of highly affluent countries
I degree of membership in the set of countries with substantial levels of income inequality
M degree of membership in the set of countries with a high percentage of workers employed
in manufacturing
U degree of membership in the set of countries with strong unions
W outcome: degree of membership in the set of countries with weak class voting

Details

All fuzzy sets in this data are constructed on a six-values scale, for demonstrative purposes.

In the original dataset, the outcome W is presented as the first column.

References

Nieuwbeerta, P. (1995) The Democratic Class Struggle in Twenty Countries: 1945:1990. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers.

Ragin, C.C. (2005) “From fuzzy sets to crisp truth tables”. WP 2004-28, COMPASSS Working Papers series.

Ragin, C.C. (2008) Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


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