ev_events: Election Violence Event Level Data.

In gidonc/durhamevp: ESRC/AHRC Victorian Election Violence Project R Code (Durham University)

Election Violence Event Level Data.

Description

An event level dataset containing violent events in British General Elections between 1832 and 1910. Note that information on the detail of events is not in this dataset, but instead is stored in event reports relating to these events. This data can be linked to the event report data using the event_id column.

Usage

ev_events

Format

A data frame with 2971 rows and 14 variables, which are:

event_id

The unique identifier of the event (which corresponds to the event_id in the processed event_reports table and to the final_cluster_id in the clustering table (in cluster attempt 401 to 420).

election_name

Standardised name of election.

event_constituency_g_name

The most commonly associated constituency (Vision of Britain g_name) associated with this event in the election violence database.

event_level

Manual classification the event intensity into four categories: Riot, Disturbance, Incident, Individual. These categories are based on Wasserman and Jaggard (2006) 'Electoral violence in mid ninteenth-century England and Wales', Historical Research, 207:80, but with some additions (and an extra 'individual' category.).
Riot A serious and sustained outbreak of collective violence, involving the implicit or explicit use of force, intimidation or coercion, and which resulted in physical damage to persons or property - or the immediate fear that such would occur. Riots commonly evoked a magisterial response, such as the reading of the Riot Act proclamation and/or the forcible restoration of the peace by police officers or the military.
Disturbance A less serious breach of the peace than a riot, and involved episodic outbursts of crowd violence rather than the type of sustained disorder characteristic of a riot. A disturbance generated a degree of public alarm and usually elicited some measure of official response.
Incident A noisy or demonstrative action by a crowd of people that is caused by, interferes with, or disrupts, the proceedings of an election campaign. An incident was a relatively short-lived event that involved little overt violence and invoked a limited or no official response.
Individual An action or set of actions involving fewer than 3-4 people, there being no crowd presence or active involvement. Occurrences of individual violence tend to be brief, and often had no effect on the proceedings of an election campaign, but were nevertheless caused by the occurrence of an election.

imap_constituency_g_name

Vision of Britain g_name of the main constituency related to the event as found on the interactive map.

imap_county_g_name

Vision of Britain g_name of county of the event as found on the interactive map.

imap_townvillage

The name of the town or village where the event took place, as found on the interactive map.

event_longitude

Event longitude taken initially from the interactive map and supplemented by further cleaning.

event_latitude

Event latitude taken initially from the interactive map and supplemented by further cleaning.

summary_event

An edited brief description of the event from the database.

n_deaths

Number of confirmed deaths. Values: 0-5

deaths_circumstance

Circumstance of deaths. Values: Riot, Roughs, Political quarrel, Candidate meeting, Other.

deaths_electionpoint

Time in the election cycle in which death(s) occurred. Values: during campaigning, during polling, after polling.

has_death

Was there a death associated with the event. Values 1 = yes, there was a death associated with the event, 0 = no, no death associated with the event.

Source

Processed Data from Durham Election Violence Dataset created by Gary Hutchison for the interactive map and supplemented by further cleaning. The event_level deaths variable were added after cleaning of all killings by Lydia Buckroyde in Michaelmas/Easter 2020/21. The interactive map can be found at https://coders.victorianelectionviolence.uk/interactive_map.

gidonc/durhamevp documentation built on April 8, 2022, 10:31 a.m.