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Description & Citation

Description & Citation--Study No. 2532

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:2532
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02532
 
Title:Cross-National Indicators of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990
 
Principal Investigator(s):Kenneth A. Bollen
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation.
 
Grant Number:SES-8908361 and SES-9121564
 
Bibliographic Citation:Bollen, Kenneth A. CROSS-NATIONAL INDICATORS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY, 1950-1990 [Computer file]. ICPSR02532-v2. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina [producer], 1998. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02532
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study, a collection of crossnational measures of political democracy, contains over 800 variables for most of the world's independent countries. Political, social, and economic measures are available in the data file, and topics include adult suffrage, civil liberties, political rights, the openness, fairness, and competitiveness of the electoral process, executive and legislative selection and effectiveness, political party legitimacy, political participation, limitations on the executive branch of the government, level of democratization, economic openness, constitutional development, government legitimacy, and the outlook for freedom. A series of variables focuses on freedom and barriers to freedom, including freedom of peaceful assembly and association, mail censorship, women's rights, freedom of information and technology, freedom of political opposition, and freedom of the press. Compulsory membership in state organizations and political parties and compulsory religion in schools are addressed as well.
 
Subject Term(s):civil rights, constitutions, democracy, economic indicators, freedom, government, government performance, nations, political issues, political participation, political parties, social indicators, world politics
 
Geographic Coverage:Global
 
Time Period:1950 - 1990
 
Date(s) of Collection:1950 - 1990
 
Universe:Cross-national indicators of liberal democracy.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) The SAS transport file was created using the SAS XPORT engine. (2) The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Sample:A pooled cross-section of national indicators of liberal democracy.
 
Extent of Processing:REFORM.DOC/ DDEF.ICPSR/ REFORM.DATA
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1999-02-17
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2001-01-05.
 
  2001-01-05 - This collection has undergone routine ICPSR processing. The data are now available in ASCII format, and SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been created for this collection.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Cross-National Indicators of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990
 

 

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