constitution: Analyzing the Preambles of Constitutions

constitutionR Documentation

Analyzing the Preambles of Constitutions

Description

Contains Preamble text for 155 countries.

Usage

constitution

Format

A data frame with 155 rows and 3 variables:

country

character: country name with words separated by underscores

year

integer: year the constitution was created

preamble

character: raw text of the preamble to the constitution

Details

See QSS Table 5.6.

References

  • Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

  • David S. Law and Mila Versteeg. (2012). 'The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution', New York University Law Review Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 762–858, and Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg.

  • James Melton. (2012). 'Comments on Law And Versteeg's the Declining Influence of the United States Constitution.' New York University Law Review Vol. 87, No. 6, pp. 2088–2101


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