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bollen1989a: Industrialization-Democracy Data

Description

A dataset from Bollen (1989) containing measures of political democracy and industrialization for 75 developing countries in 1960 and 1965. The variables are as follows:

Usage

bollen1989a

Arguments

format

A data frame with 75 rows and 9 variables

Details

  • y1. freedom of the press, 1960
  • y2. freedom of political opposition, 1960
  • y3. fairness of elections, 1960
  • y4. effectiveness of elected legislature, 1960
  • y5. freedom of the press, 1965
  • y6. freedom of political opposition, 1965
  • y7. fairness of elections, 1965
  • y8. effectiveness of elected legislature, 1965
  • x1. GNP per capita, 1960
  • x2. energy consumption per capita, 1960
  • x3. percentage of labor force in industry, 1960

References

Bollen, K. A. (1989). Structural equation models. New York: Wiley-Interscience.