GiugniYamasaki2009: The Policy Impact of Social Movements

In QCA3: Yet Another Package for Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Description

This data is used to study the policy impact of social movements.

Usage

data(GiugniYamasaki2009)

Format

A data frame with 30 observations on the following 6 variables.

Case

a character vector

Protest

a numeric vector

Opinion

a numeric vector

Allies

a numeric vector

Parties

a numeric vector

Alliances

a numeric vector

PolicyChange

a numeric vector

Details

This data was collected from a previous study on the policy impact of antinuclear,ecology, and peace movements in three countries. Giugni and Sakura replicated the analysis with QCA.

The example section also demonstrates the advantages of using R to do QCA, because it has strong capacity of data manipulation.

References

Giugni, Marco and Sakura Yamasaki. 2009. "The Policy Impact of Social Movements: A Replication Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 14 (4) : 467 - 484.

Examples

## ecology movement
ecology <- GiugniYamasaki2009[grep("-E",GiugniYamasaki2009$Case),]
ecology$opinion <- as.numeric(ecology$Opinion>63)
ecology$alliances <- as.numeric(ecology$Alliances>127)
cs_truthTable(ecology,"PolicyChange",c('Protest','opinion','alliances'),case="Case")
reduce(PolicyChange~Protest+opinion+alliances,ecology,case="Case")

## anti-nuclear movement
nuclear <- GiugniYamasaki2009[grep("-N",GiugniYamasaki2009$Case),]
nuclear$opinion <- as.numeric(nuclear$Opinion>51)
nuclear$alliances <- as.numeric(nuclear$Alliances>127)
reduce(PolicyChange~Protest+opinion+alliances,nuclear,case="Case")

## Peace movement
peace <- GiugniYamasaki2009[grep("-P",GiugniYamasaki2009$Case),]
peace$opinion <- as.numeric(peace$Opinion>40)
peace$alliances <- as.numeric(peace$Alliances>127)
reduce(PolicyChange~Protest+opinion+alliances,peace,case="Case")

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