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russett: Russett dataset

Description

Data set from Russett (1964) about agricultural inequality, industrial development and political instability.

Usage

data(russett)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 47 observations on the following 11 variables. The variables may be used to construct three latent concepts: 1) AGRIN=Agricultural Inequality, 2) INDEV=Industrial Development, 3) POLINS=Political Instability.

NumVariableDescriptionConcept
1giniInequality of land distributionAGRIN
2farmPercentage of farmers that own half of the landAGRIN
3rentPercentage of farmers that rent all their landAGRIN
4gnprGross national product per capitaINDEV
5laboPercentage of labor force employed in agricultureINDEV
6instInstability of executive (1945-1961)POLINS
7ecksNumber of violent internal war incidents (1941-1961)POLINS
8deathNumber of people killed as a result of civic group violence (1950-1962)POLINS
9demostabPolitical regime: stable democracyPOLINS
10demoinstPolitical regime: unstable democracyPOLINS
11dictatorPolitical regime: dictatorshipPOLINS

References

Russett B.M. (1964) Inequality and Instability: The Relation of Land Tenure to Politics. World Politics 16:3, pp. 442-454.

Examples

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  data(russett)
  russett

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