Lipsets: Breakdown/survival of democracy in inter-war Europe
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This is the fuzzy set version of Lipset data on Breakdown/survival of democracy in inter-war Europe.

A data frame with 18 observations on the following 13 variables.

Country: Name of country
Survived: If a country survives the economic and political upheavals of this period.
Survived.FZ: Fuzzy set score of Survived
Developed: The degree of development.
Developed.FZ: Fuzzy set score of Developed.
Urban: The degree of urbanization.
Urban.FZ: Fuzzy set score of Urban.
Literate: The degree of literate a county is.
Literate.FZ: Fuzzy set score of Literate.
Industrial: The degree of industrialization.
Industrial.FZ: Fuzzy set score of Industrial
Unstable: The degree of political instablity.
Stable.FZ: Fuzzy set score of political stability.

The data set is from Ragin(2009:95), the details about the dataset is described in page 93.

Ragin. Charles. 2009. Qualitative Comparative Analyais Using Fuzzy Sets (fsQCA). In Configuraional comparative Methods: qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and related techniques. ed by Benoit RiHoux and Charles Ragin. Sage.

conditions <- c("Developed.FZ","Urban.FZ","Literate.FZ","Industrial.FZ", "Stable.FZ")
reduce(Lipset_fs,"Survived.FZ",conditions,explain="positive",remaind="exclude",
      prepro="fs",consistency=0.7)
## Formula 1 in page 112
reduce(Lipset_fs,"Survived.FZ",conditions,explain="positive",remaind="include",
       prepro="fs",consistency=0.7)
## Formula 2 in page 114
reduce(Lipset_fs,"Survived.FZ",conditions,explain="negative",remaind="exclude",
       prepro="fs",consistency=0.7)
## Formula 5 in page 115
reduce(Lipset_fs,"Survived.FZ",conditions,explain="negative",remaind="include",
      prepro="fs",consistency=0.7)
## Formula 6 in page 117