_Lipset: Lipset's indicators for the survival of democracy

Description

This data set is taken from Lipset (1959), as used by Rihoux and De Meur (2009), Cronqvist and Berg-Schlosser (2009) and Ragin (2009).

Usage

data(LR)
data(LC)
data(LM)
data(LF)

Arguments

format

A data frame containing 18 rows and the following 6 columns: rl{ DEV Level of development URB Level of urbanization LIT Level of literacy IND Level of industrialization STB Government stability SURV Survival of democracy during the inter-war period. }

Details

There are four different versions of the Lipset data: rl{ LR contains the raw data LC is the same data calibrated to binary crisp sets LM is calibrated to multi-value sets LF is calibrated to fuzzy-sets } The causal conditions are: DEV referring to the level of development: in the raw data is the GDP per capita (USD), calibrated in the binary crisp version to 0 if below 550 USD and 1 otherwise. For the multi-value crisp version, two thresholds were used: 550 and 850 USD. URB is the percent of the population in towns with 20,000 or more inhabitants, calibrated in the crisp versions to 0 if below 50% and 1 if above. LIT is the percent of the literate population, calibrated in the crisp versions to 0 if below 75% and 1 if above. IND is the percent of the industrial labor force, calibrated in the crisp versions to 0 if below 30% and 1 if above. STB is a political-institutional condition added to the previous four socioeconomic ones. The raw data has the number of cabinets which governed in the period under study, calibrated in the crisp versions to 0 if 10 or above and 1 if below 10. The outcome is the column SURV, calibrated to 0 if negative, and 1 if positive raw data.

References

Lipset, S. M. (1959) Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy, American Political Science Review vol.53, pp.69-105. Cronqvist, L.; Berg-Schlosser, D. (2009) Multi-Value QCA (mvQCA), in Rihoux, B.; Ragin, C. (eds.) Configurational Comparative Methods. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques, SAGE. Rihoux, B.; De Meur, G. (2009) Crisp Sets Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA), in Rihoux, B.; Ragin, C. (eds.) Configurational Comparative Methods. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques, SAGE. Ragin, C. (2009) Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using Fuzzy-Sets (fsQCA), in Rihoux, B.; Ragin, C. (eds.) Configurational Comparative Methods. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques, SAGE.