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_Nieuwbeerta: Class voting in post-World War era

Description

This fuzzy dataset is an adaptation from Ragin (2005, 2008), the data itself being attributed to Nieuwbeerta (1995).

Usage

data(NF)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing 12 cases (countries) and the following 5 columns:

Adegree of membership in the set of highly affluent countries
Idegree of membership in the set of countries with substantial levels of income inequality
Mdegree of membership in the set of countries with a high percentage of workers employed
in manufacturing
Udegree of membership in the set of countries with strong unions
Woutcome: degree of membership in the set of countries with weak class voting

Details

All fuzzy sets in this data are constructed on a six-values scale, for demonstrative purposes.

In the original dataset, the outcome W is presented as the first column.

References

Nieuwbeerta, P. (1995) The Democratic Class Struggle in Twenty Countries: 1945:1990. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers.

Ragin, C.C. (2005) “From fuzzy sets to crisp truth tables”. WP 2004-28, COMPASSS Working Papers series.

Ragin, C.C. (2008) Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.