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glmdm (version 2.60)

asia: asia

Description

Asia data.

Usage

data(asia)

Arguments

Format

Asia data set
ATT
the dichotomous outcome of interest indicating whether or not there was at least one violent terrorist act in a country/year pair.
DEM
the Polity IV 21-point democracy scale ranging from -10 indicating a hereditary monarchy to +10 indicating a fully consolidated democracy. (Gurr, Marshall, and Jaggers 2003).
FED
is assigned zero if sub-national governments do not have substantial taxing, spending, and regulatory authority, and one otherwise.
SYS
coded as: (0) for direct presidential elections, (1) for strong president elected by assembly, and (2) dominant parliamentary government.
AUT
a dichotomous variable indicating whether or not there are autonomous regions not directly controlled by central government.

References

Koch, M. T. Cranmer, S. (2007). "Terrorism than Governments of the Right? Testing the 'Dick Cheney' Hypothesis: Do Governments of the Left Attract More than Goverments of the Right?'' Conflict Management and Peace Science 24, 311-326.