legfig: Replication data for Clark and Golder (2006)
Description
District magnitude and ethnic heterogeneity data from a pooled sample of
established democracies in the 1990s. Data originally
from Clark and Golder (2006).
Format
A data frame with 754 rows and 33 variables:
- country
- country name
- countrynumber
- country number
- year
- year of observation
- enep1
- electoral parties
- eneg
- ethnic heterogeneity
- logmag
- district magnitude
- legelec
- legislative election
- preselec
- presidential election
- regime
- regime as of 31 Dec of given year (0=democracy, 1=dictatorship)
- regime_leg
- regime type at time of leg. election (0=democracy, 1=dictatorship)
- eighties
- election in 1980s closest to 1985
- nineties
- election in 1990s closest to 1995
- old
- elections in countries that did not transition to democracy in 1990s
- avemag
- average district magnitude
- districts
- number of electoral districts
- enep
- effective number of ethnic groups fearon
- enep_others
- n/a
- enpp
- parliamentary parties - uncorrected
- enpp_others
- n/a
- enpp1
- parliamentary parties - corrected
- enpres
- effective number of presidential candidates
- medmag
- median district magnitude
- newdem
- first election of new democracy
- proximity1
- proximity - continuous
- proximity2
- proximity - dichotomous
- seats
- assembly size
- upperseats
- number of upper tier seats
- uppertier
- percentage of uppertier seats
- uppertier_eneg
- uppertier*eneg
- logmag_eneg
- logmag*eneg
- proximity1_enpres
- proximity1*enpres
- twoelections
- n/a
- twoelections1
- n/a
...
Source
Clark, William R., and Matt Golder. 2006. "Rehabilitating Duverger's Theory." Comparative Political Studies 39(6): 679-708.