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Pennings: Pennings (2003)

Description

The Pennings data frame has 45 rows and 5 variables

Usage

data(Pennings)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 45 observations on the following 5 variables.
K
a numeric vector. Outcome, constitutional control.
C
a numeric vector. Condition, consensus democracy.
P
a numeric vector. Condition, presidentialism.
N
a numeric vector. Condition, new democracy.
R
a numeric vector. Condition, rigid constritution.

Details

Data used by Pennings (2009) to explain constitutional control. Data are fuzzy-sets.

References

Pennings, P. (2009) "Beyond Dichotomous Explanations: Explaining Constitutional control of the Executive with Fuzzy-sets", European Journal of Political Research 42, pp. 541-567. Schneider, C. Q., Wagemann, C. (2012) Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Schneider, C. Q., Wagemann, C., Quaranta, M. (2012) How To... Use Software for Set-Theoretic Analysis. Online Appendix to "Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences". Available at www.cambridge.org/schneider-wagemann.