rockchalk (version 1.8.0)

cheating: Cheating and Looting in Japanese Electoral Politics

Description

Extracted from the "cheating-replication.dta" data file with permission by the authors, Benjamin Nyblade and Steven Reed. The Stata data file provided by the authors included many constructed variables that have been omitted. Within R, these can be easily re-contructed by users.

format

data.frame: 16623 obs. on 27 variables

source

http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/bnyblade/publications.html.

Details

Special thanks to NyBlade and Reed for permission to repackage this data. Also special thanks to them for creating an especially transparent variable naming scheme.

The data set includes many columns for variables that can easily be re-constructed from the columns that are provided here. While Stata users might need to manually create 'dummy variables' and interactions, R users generally do not do that manually.

These variables from the original data set were omitted:

Dummy variables for the year variable: c("yrd1", "yrd2", ..., "yrd17", "yrd18")

Dummy variables for the ku variable: c("ku1", "ku2", ..., "ku141", "ku142")

Constructed product variables: c("actualratiosq", "viabsq", "viab_candcamp_divm", "viab_candothercamp_divm", "viabsq_candcamp_divm", "viabsq_candothercamp_divm", "absviab_candcamp", "absviab_candothercamp", "absviab_candcamp_divm", "absviab_candothercamp_divm", "viabsq_candcamp", "viabsq_candothercamp", "viab_candcamp", "viab_candothercamp", "candothercamp_divm", "candcamp_divm", "candcampminusm", "candothercampminusm", "predratiosq", "absviab")

Mean centered variables: constr2 <- c("viab_candcampminusm", "viab_candothercampminusm", "viabsq_candothercampminusm", "viabsq_candcampminusm")

In the end, we are left with these variables:

[1] "ku" [2] "prefecture" [3] "dist" [4] "year" [5] "yr" [6] "cdnr" [7] "jiban" [8] "cheating" [9] "looting" [10] "actualratio" [11] "viab" [12] "inc" [13] "cons" [14] "ur" [15] "newcand" [16] "jwins" [17] "cons_cwins" [18] "oth_cwins" [19] "camp" [20] "fleader" [21] "incablast" [22] "predratio" [23] "m" [24] "candcamp" [25] "candothercamp" [26] "kunocheat" [27] "kunoloot"

References

Benjamin Nyblade and Steven Reed, "Who Cheats? Who Loots? Political Competition and Corruption in Japan, 1947-1993." American Journal of Political Science 52(4): 926-41. October 2008.

Examples

require(rockchalk)
data(cheating)

table1model2 <- glm(cheating ~ viab + I(viab^2) + inc + cons + ur
+ newcand + jwins + cons_cwins + oth_cwins, family = binomial(link
= "logit"), data = cheating)

predictOMatic(table1model2)

predictOMatic(table1model2, interval = "confidence")

## The publication used "rare events logistic", which I'm not bothering
## with here because I don't want to invoke additional imported packages.
## But the ordinary logit results are proof of concept.