Other Political Data (updated 2005)

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Robert Bates; Karen Feree; James Habyarimana; Macartan Humphreys; Smita Singh, 2018, "Other Political Data (updated 2005)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0AJRDZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:5:XzsUmjt4AZzpm9JB3hO6pA== [fileUNF]
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This dataset primarily includes variables that the project has collected from other researchers. The variables are broadly divided into the following categories: Political Regime type, Political Participation, Military Expenditure, General Fiscal Policy, Dependency and Debt Measures, and General Trade indicators. The set includes measures from economic datasets that can reasonably be assumed to measure political decision making. Since different measures are used in different ways by researchers, the choice whether to include a variable in the economc.dta or politicl.dta was oftentimes quite subjective. We have chosen for example to treat inflation as an economic indicator rather than a policy variable and to treat government consumption as a policy variable. In any case, the variables from the two sets can easily be merged. Similarly government expenditure on the military is included in this dataset while other military variables can be found in the violence1.dta and violnce2.dta datasets. These violence datasets contain other political protest variables. These are separated from the rest of the political variables in part because there are simply so many of them but also to make a complementary dataset for the new Bates Violence collection. (2010)
Subject Social Sciences
Keyword African political economy, panel estimation, Political Regime type, Political Participation, Military Expenditure, General Fiscal Policy, Dependency and Debt Measures, General Trade indicators, political decision making
Related Publication Project and related working papers

Aryeetey, Ernest and Christopher Udry. Saving in Sub-Saharan Africa CID Working Paper no.38, January 2000.

Adenikinju, Adeola F. and Olugboyega Oyerant. "Characteristics and Behaviour of African Factor Markets and Market Institutions and Their Consequences for Economic Growth". CID Working Paper no. 31, January 2000.

Bates, Robert H. "Ethnicity, Capital Formation, and Conflict" CID Working Paper no. 27, October 1999

Bates, Robert H. and Shantayanan Devarajan. "Framework Paper on the Political Economy of African Growth" (forthcoming in CID Working Paper Series)

Bates,Robert H., Avner Greif and Smita Singh. "Organizing Violence" CID Working Paper no. 71, June 2001.

Bates,Robert H. and Irene Yackovlev. "Through a Different Optic? Ethnicity and Development in Africa" Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 2001.

Ferree, Karen and Smita Singh. "Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Africa, 1970-1995". (forthcoming in CID Working Paper Series)

Hoeffler, Anke E. "The Augmented Solow Model and the African Growth Debate" CID Working Paper no.36, January 2000.

Humphreys, Macartan and Robert Bates. "Economic Policies in Africa: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Paper prepared for delivery at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 2001.

Humphreys, Macartan. Background Information on Political Institutions and Political Behavior (Support Document for AERC Country Authors), March 2000

LaFerrara, Eliana and Robert H. Bates. Political Competition in Weak States CID Working Paper no. 68, June 2001.

O'Connell, Stephen A. O’and Benno J. Ndulu. Africa's Growth Experience: A Focus on Sources of Growth, April 2000

Voortman, R. L., B. G. J. S. Sonneveld, and M. A. Keyzer. African Land Ecology: Opportunities and Constraints for Agricultural Development CID Working Paper no.37, January 2000.
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