R/constitution.R

In kosukeimai/qss-data: Data and Code for "Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction"

#' Analyzing the Preambles of Constitutions
#'
#' Contains Preamble text for 155 countries.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 155 rows and 3 variables:
#' \describe{
#'  \item{ country }{ character: country name with words separated by underscores }
#'  \item{ year }{ integer: year the constitution was created }
#'  \item{ preamble }{ character: raw text of the preamble to the constitution }
#' }
#'
#'
#' @details
#' See \emph{QSS} Table 5.6.
#'
#'
#' @references
#' \itemize{
#' \item{ Imai, Kosuke. 2017. \emph{Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction}.
#' Princeton University Press. \href{http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11025.html}{URL}. }
#' \item { David S. Law and Mila Versteeg. (2012). 'The Declining Influence of the United States
#' Constitution', \emph{New York University Law Review} Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 762--858,
#' and Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg. }
#' \item { James Melton. (2012). 'Comments on Law And Versteeg's the Declining Influence of the United
#' States Constitution.' \emph{New York University Law Review} Vol. 87, No. 6, pp. 2088--2101 }
#'}
"constitution"