repress: State Repression Dataset

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State Repression Dataset

Description

These data consider the democracy-repression nexus. While they are different data than used in previous studies, they are similar in spirit to the data used in Poe and Tate (1994) and in Davenport and Armstrong (20040).

Format

A data frame with 1530 rows and 22 variables

gwno

Gleditsch and Ward numeric country code

year

Year of observation

pts_s

Political Terror Scale coding of State Department country reports.

rgdpe

Penn World Tables measure of GDP in millions $USD.

pop

Population in millions from the Penn World Tables.

pr

Freedom House's Political Rights measure (0-40)

cwar

Civil War indicator from the UCDP Armed Conflict Database.

iwar

Interstate War indicator from the UCDP Armed Conflict Database.

References

Feenstra, Robert C., Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer 2015. ‘The Next Generation of the Penn World Table’ American Economic Review, 105(10), 3150-3182, available for download at https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/.

Freedom House. (2020). Freedom in the World 2020. New York: Freedom House.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson, Margareta Sollenberg & Havard Strand, 2002. ‘Armed Conflict 1946–2001: A New Dataset’, Journal of Peace Research 39(5): 615–637.

Gibney, Mark, Linda Cornett, Reed Wood, Peter Haschke, Daniel Arnon, Attilio Pisano, Gray Barrett, and Baekkwan Park. 2020. ‘The Political Terror Scale 1976-2019.’ Date Retrieved, from the Political Terror Scale website: https://www.politicalterrorscale.org/.


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