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.