russett: Russett dataset

russettR Documentation

Russett dataset

Description

Data set from Russett (1964) about agricultural inequality, industrial development and political instability.

Usage

data(russett)

Format

A data frame with 47 observations on the following 11 variables. The variables may be used to construct three latent concepts: 1) AGRIN=Agricultural Inequality, 2) INDEV=Industrial Development, 3) POLINS=Political Instability.

Num Variable Description Concept
1 gini Inequality of land distribution AGRIN
2 farm Percentage of farmers that own half of the land AGRIN
3 rent Percentage of farmers that rent all their land AGRIN
4 gnpr Gross national product per capita INDEV
5 labo Percentage of labor force employed in agriculture INDEV
6 inst Instability of executive (1945-1961) POLINS
7 ecks Number of violent internal war incidents (1941-1961) POLINS
8 death Number of people killed as a result of civic group violence (1950-1962) POLINS
9 demostab Political regime: stable democracy POLINS
10 demoinst Political regime: unstable democracy POLINS
11 dictator Political regime: dictatorship POLINS

References

Russett B.M. (1964) Inequality and Instability: The Relation of Land Tenure to Politics. World Politics 16:3, pp. 442-454.

Examples

  data(russett)
  russett

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