PErisk                 package:Zelig                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Political Economic Risk Data from 62 Countries in 1987.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(PErisk)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 62 observations on the following 6 variables.
     All data points are from 1987. See Quinn (2004) for more details. 

     country: a factor with levels 'Argentina' 'Australia' 'Austria'
     'Bangladesh' 'Belgium' 'Bolivia' 'Botswana' 'Brazil' 'Burma'
     'Cameroon' 'Canada' 'Chile' 'Colombia' 'Congo-Kinshasa' 'Costa
     Rica' 'Cote d'Ivoire' 'Denmark' 'Dominican Republic' 'Ecuador'
     'Finland' 'Gambia, The' 'Ghana' 'Greece' 'Hungary' 'India'
     'Indonesia' 'Iran' 'Ireland' 'Israel' 'Italy' 'Japan' 'Kenya'
     'Korea, South' 'Malawi' 'Malaysia' 'Mexico' 'Morocco' 'New
     Zealand' 'Nigeria' 'Norway' 'Papua New Guinea' 'Paraguay'
     'Philippines' 'Poland' 'Portugal' 'Sierra Leone' 'Singapore'
     'South Africa' 'Spain' 'Sri Lanka' 'Sweden' 'Switzerland' 'Syria'
     'Thailand' 'Togo' 'Tunisia' 'Turkey' 'United Kingdom' 'Uruguay'
     'Venezuela' 'Zambia' 'Zimbabwe'

     courts: an ordered factor with levels '0' < '1'.'courts' is an
     indicator of whether the country in question is judged to have an
     independent judiciary. From Henisz (2002).

     barb2: a numeric vector giving the natural log of the black market
     premium in each country. The black market premium is coded as the
     black market exchange rate (local currency per dollar) divided by
     the official exchange  rate minus 1. From Marshall, Gurr, and
     Harff (2002). 

     prsexp2: an ordered factor with levels '0' < '1' < '2' < '3' < '4'
     < '5', giving the lack of expropriation risk. From Marshall, Gurr,
     and Harff (2002).

     prscorr2: an ordered factor with levels '0' < '1' < '2' < '3' <
     '4' < '5', measuring the lack of corruption. From Marshall, Gurr,
     and Harff (2002).

     gdpw2: a numeric vector giving the natural log of real GDP per
     worker in 1985 international prices. From Alvarez et al. (1999).

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Mike Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi, and Adam
     Przeworski. 1999. ``ACLP Political and Economic Database.'' <URL:
     http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~cheibub/data/>.

     Witold J. Henisz. 2002. ``The Political Constraint Index (POLCON)
     Dataset.''  <URL:
     http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/henisz/POLCON/ContactInfo.
     html>.

     Monty G. Marshall, Ted Robert Gurr, and Barbara Harff. 2002.
     ``State Failure Task Force Problem Set.'' <URL:
     http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/stfail/index.htm>.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Kevin M. Quinn. 2004. ``Bayesian Factor Analysis for Mixed Ordinal
     and Continuous Response.'' _Political Analyis_. Vol. 12,
     pp.338-353.

