coalition: Coalition Dissolution in Parliamentary Democracies
Description
This data set contains survival data on government coalitions in
parliamentary democracies (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,
Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,
Sweden, and the United Kingdom) for the period 1945-1987. For
parsimony, country indicator variables are omitted in the sample data.
Usage
data(coalition)
Arguments
format
A table containing 7 variables ("duration", "ciep12", "invest",
"fract", "polar", "numst2", "crisis") and 314 observations. For
variable descriptions, please refer to King, Alt, Burns and Laver
(1990).
source
ICPSR
References
King, Gary, James E. Alt, Nancy Elizabeth Burns and Michael Laver (1990).
``A Unified Model of Cabinet Dissolution in Parliamentary
Democracies,'' American Journal of Political Science, vol. 34,
no. 3, pp. 846-870.
Gary King, James E. Alt, Nancy Burns, and Michael Laver. ICPSR
Publication Related Archive, 1115.