legfig: Replication data for Clark and Golder (2006)

Description Format Source

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.


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