coalition               package:Zelig               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This data set contains survival data on government coalitions in
     parliamentary democracies (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland,
     France, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway,
     Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) for the period
     1945-1987.  For parsimony, country indicator variables are omitted
     in the sample data.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(coalition)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A table containing 7 variables ("duration", "ciep12", "invest",
     "fract", "polar", "numst2", "crisis") and 314 observations.  For
     variable descriptions, please refer to King, Alt, Burns and Laver
     (1990).

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     ICPSR

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     King, Gary, James E. Alt, Nancy Elizabeth Burns and Michael Laver
     (1990). ``A Unified Model  of Cabinet Dissolution in Parliamentary
     Democracies,'' _American Journal of Political Science_, vol. 34,
     no. 3, pp. 846-870.  

     Gary King, James E. Alt, Nancy Burns, and Michael Laver.  ICPSR
     Publication Related Archive, 1115.

