R/democracy_mentions_yearly_doc.R

In xmarquez/AuthoritarianismBook: Replication Package for the Book Non-Democratic Politics by Xavier Marquez

#' Mentions of democracy in constitutional documents, V. 1.0
#'
#' A dataset of mentions of democracy in the constitutional documents collected by
#' the Comparative Constitutions Project. A similar variable is found in the much
#' larger dataset maintained by the CCP at
#' \url{http://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/ccp-visualizations/}
#'
#' @section Variable descriptions:
#'
#' \describe{ \item{country_name}{Standardized country name. This is the same
#' across all datasets in this package, so you can always join them by
#' country_name and year. Character with 213 distinct values. Most common: Canada
#' (251), United Kingdom (799), United States of America (233). NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{GWn}{Gleditsch-Ward numeric country code. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999).
#' Numeric. Max = 990, min = 2, distinct = 213, mean = 389.749, sd = 260.263, NAs
#' = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{year}{Year. Numeric. Max = 2013, min = 1215, distinct = 799, mean =
#' 1925.81, sd = 98.455, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{constitution_name}{Name of constitution in the CCP corpus. Character with
#' 891 distinct values. Most common: Norway's Constitution of 1814 (200), United
#' Kingdom's Constitution of 1215 (799), United States Of America's Constituti...
#' (233). NAs = 1853.}
#'
#'
#' \item{const_num}{Constitution number in the country's constitutional history.
#' (0 = pre-constitutional period, 1 = first constitution, etc.). Numeric. Max =
#' 33, min = 0, distinct = 34, mean = 3.572, sd = 4.314, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{has_constitution}{Does the country have a constitution? (May be
#' suspended). Logical. TRUE = 17539, FALSE = 1853, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{constitutional.event}{Constitutional event (e.g., new constitution,
#' amendment, etc.). NA if no event took place during the year. Character with 8
#' distinct values. Most common: amendment (2231), interim (78), new (777). NAs =
#' 16243.}
#'
#'
#' \item{has_mention}{Does the constitution mention democracy? (FALSE if no
#' constitution). Logical. TRUE = 9463, FALSE = 9929, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{mentions}{First 500 characters of the passages mentioning democracy.
#' (More than one mention may be concatenated together) Character with 1218
#' distinct values. Most common: and except so far as that provision o... (115),
#' on a democratic (63), Part I Chapter I General Declarat... (70). NAs = 9929.}
#'
#'
#' \item{GWc}{Gleditsch-Ward alphabetic country code. See Gleditsch and Ward
#' (1999). Character with 213 distinct values. Most common: CAN (251), UKG (799),
#' USA (233). NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{cown}{Correlates of War numeric country code. Differs from GWn for a few
#' country-years. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Numeric. Max = 990, min = 2,
#' distinct = 213, mean = 389.543, sd = 259.79, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{polity_ccode}{Country code in Polity datasets. Differs from GWn for a few
#' country-years. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Numeric. Max = 990, min = 2,
#' distinct = 221, mean = 389.533, sd = 259.782, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{region}{Region. Character with 23 distinct values. Most common: Northern
#' Europe (1870), South America (2053), Western Europe (2210). NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{continent}{Continent. Character with 5 distinct values. Most common:
#' Americas (4752), Asia (3937), Europe (6781). NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{GW_startdate}{Date at which the state entered the system of states
#' according to Gleditsch and Ward, or NA if it has never been a member. Date. Max
#' = 2011-07-09, min = 1816-01-01, distinct = 166, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{GW_enddate}{Date at which the state ceased to be a member of the system
#' of states according to Gleditsch and Ward, or NA if it still exists. Date. Max
#' = 2006-06-04, min = 1830-09-22, distinct = 19, NAs = 17891.}
#'
#'
#' \item{microstate}{Indicator of whether the state is a microstate, according to
#' Gleditsch's list of microstates. Logical. TRUE = 1326, FALSE = 18066, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{lat}{Latitude. Numeric. Max = 64.963, min = -40.901, distinct = 210, mean
#' = 23.699, sd = 26.004, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{lon}{Longitude. Numeric. Max = 178.68, min = -175.198, distinct = 210,
#' mean = 5.571, sd = 67.087, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{in_cow}{Whether the country-year is in the Correlates of War system of
#' states. Logical. TRUE = 15480, FALSE = 3912, NAs = 0.}
#'
#'
#' \item{in_system}{Whether the country-year is in the Gleditsch-Ward system of
#' states. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Logical. TRUE = 17509, FALSE = 1883, NAs
#' = 0.}
#'
#'
#' }
#'
#'
#'
#' @references
#'
#' Gleditsch, Kristian S. & Michael D. Ward. 1999. "Interstate System Membership:
#' A Revised List of the Independent States since 1816." International
#' Interactions 25: 393-413. The list can be found at
#' \url{http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ksg/statelist.html}
#'
#'
#'
#'
#' @family institutions
"democracy_mentions_yearly"