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Political Economic Risk Data from 62 Countries in 1987.
data(PErisk)
A data frame with 62 observations on the following 9 variables. All data points are from 1987. See Quinn (2004) for more details.
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
0
<
1
.courts
is an indicator of whether the country in
question is judged to have an independent judiciary. From Henisz
(2002).0
< 1
<
2
< 3
< 4
< 5
, giving the lack of
expropriation risk. From Marshall, Gurr, and Harff (2002).0
< 1
<
2
< 3
< 4
< 5
, measuring the lack of
corruption. From Marshall, Gurr, and Harff (2002).Mike Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi, and Adam Przeworski. 1999. ``ACLP Political and Economic Database.'' http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~cheibub/data/.
Witold J. Henisz. 2002. ``The Political Constraint Index (POLCON) Dataset.'' \ 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.'' http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/stfail/index.htm.
Kevin M. Quinn. 2004. ``Bayesian Factor Analysis for Mixed Ordinal and Continuous Response.'' Political Analyis. 12: 338-353.