MSBVAR (version 0.9-2)

BCFdata: Subset of Data from Brandt, Colaresi, and Freeman (2008)

Description

This data set in two matrices about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first matrix is a set of endogenous variables that gives 1) monthly Goldstein scaled means that summarize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from April 1996 - March 2005, 2) average Jewish peace index score [0 = no support to 100=full support] that measure Jewish public support of the peace process based on polls of Jewish respondents from the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research. The conflict measures are dyadic or directed actions from one party towards the other. Positive values indicate an average of more cooperation and less conflict and negative values indicate an average with more conflict than cooperation. These are a subset of the Levant dataset from the Kansas / Penn State / Computational Event Data Project Levant dataset. The data are from AFP news sources and encoded into the World Event Interaction Survey (WEIS) coding system and Goldstein scalings using the Event Data Project TABARI program. Source data can be found on the site below.

Usage

data(BCFdata)

Format

Two matrices containing 108 observations. The first matrix "Y" is a multiple ts object of the endogenous series that measure the average conflict-cooperation level and the public opinion data. This matrix has three columns. Column one, "I2P", is average Goldstein scaled Israeli actions towards the Palestinians; column two, "P2I" is average Goldstein scaled Palestinian actions towards the Israelis; column three is the average Jewish peace index value for the month, "JPI". The second matrix, "z2" is a set of nine control variables for shifts in the conflict, the Israeli prime ministerial regime, and election trends. The columns of this matrix are 1) a dummy variable for the period from the start of the second Intifada to the start of the Battle of Jenin (October 2000--April 2002, end of the second Intifada). 2) a dummy variable for the post-Battle of Jenin period (May 2002--March 2005), 3-5) dummy variables for the identities of the Israeli prime ministers in each month (one each for Netanyahu, Barak, and Sharon, with Rabin/Peres treated as the reference category). 6-9) a separate time counter that starts at the value 1 in the month after each Israeli election and increases until the time of the next constitutionally mandated election.

Source

Brandt, Patrick T., Michael P. Colaresi and John R. Freeman. 2008. ``The Dynamics of Reciprocity, Accountability and Credibility.'' Journal of Conflict Resolution. 52(3): 343-374. Replication materials at http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/52/3/343

References

Goldstein, Joshua. S. 1992. "A Conflict-Cooperation Scale for WEIS Event Data" Journal of Conflict Resolution. 36:369-385. Computational Event Data Project http://eventdata.parusanalytics.com/