PoliticalDemocracy: Data: political democracy

Description

The Industrialization and Political Democracy dataset. This dataset is used throughout Bollen's 1989 book (see pages 12, 17, 36 in chapter 2, pages 228 and following in chapter 7, pages 321 and following in chapter 8; Bollen1989;textualcSEM). The dataset contains various measures of political democracy and industrialization in developing countries.

Usage

PoliticalDemocracy

Arguments

Format

A data frame of 75 observations of 11 variables.

y1: Expert ratings of the freedom of the press in 1960
y2: The freedom of political opposition in 1960
y3: The fairness of elections in 1960
y4: The effectiveness of the elected legislature in 1960
y5: Expert ratings of the freedom of the press in 1965
y6: The freedom of political opposition in 1965
y7: The fairness of elections in 1965
y8: The effectiveness of the elected legislature in 1965
x1: The gross national product (GNP) per capita in 1960
x2: The inanimate energy consumption per capita in 1960
x3: The percentage of the labor force in industry in 1960

References

Examples

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
#============================================================================
# Example is taken from the lavaan website
#============================================================================
# Note: example is modified. Across-block correlations are removed
model <- "
# Measurement model
  ind60 =~ x1 + x2 + x3
  dem60 =~ y1 + y2 + y3 + y4
  dem65 =~ y5 + y6 + y7 + y8
  
# Regressions / Path model
  dem60 ~ ind60
  dem65 ~ ind60 + dem60
  
# residual correlations
  y2 ~~ y4
  y6 ~~ y8
"

aa <- csem(PoliticalDemocracy, model)
# }

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