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Description
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The IPI project was designed to measure political conflict and cooperation within societies through the coding of political event reports from international, regional, and local sources. These events were coded on two ten point scales which reflect the severity of various cooperative and conflictual statements and actions. This scaled events data can be used to calculate the volume and intensity of political conflict and cooperation within the domestic polity. In addition to facilitating the calculation of general levels of political conflict, the IPI coding scheme allows the examination of the dynamics of interaction among specific groups within the society. IPI gives scholars the ability to track interactions among social groups and between the state and social groups.
We have completed the first round of coding for 14 countries. Unfortunately, human coding is prone to error, and we found that we needed to do a second round of coding, which we call editing the data (for a discussion, please see Davis, Leeds and Moore 1998, available for download from the papers page of this site). While our funding covered the coding of the data, we did not secure funding for the editing, and that has been done on an on-and-off basis since 1996. Thus, to date w e have two types of data: coded and edited.
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Related Publication
| Carey, Sabine C. 2006. "The Dynamic Relationship Between Protest, Repression, and Political Regimes," Political Research Quarterly, March, forthcoming (revised version of a paper presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston. article available here
Shellman, Stephen M. 2005. "Leaders & Their Motivations: Explaining Government-Dissident Conflict-Cooperation Processes." Conflict Management & Peace Science, 22, forthcoming. article available here
Shellman, Stephen M. 2004. "Time Series Intervals and Statistical Inference: The Effects of Temporal Aggregation on Event Data Analysis." Political Analysis 12(1): 97-104. article available here
Shellman, Stephen M. 2004. "Measuring the Intensity of Intranational Political Events Data: Two Interval-Like Scales," International Interactions, 30(2): 109-141. article available here
Shellman, Stephen M. 2002. "Responding to Outcomes: A Dynamic Model of State-Dissident Interactions in Latin America," revised version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Atlanta, 2001.
Lee, Chris. 2001. Protest and Repression in Latin America: A Synthetic Model, PhD dissertation, University of California, Riverside.
Davis, David R., Brett Ashley Leeds and Will H. Moore. 1998. "Measuring Dissident and State Behavior: The Intranational Political Interactions (IPI) Project," presented at the Workshop on Cross-National Data Collection, Texas A&M University, November 21. article available here
Moore, Will H. and David R. Davis. 1998. "Ties that Bind? Domestic and International Conflict Behavior in Zaire," Comparative Political Studies, 31: 45-71. article available here
Lee, Chris. 1998a. "An Inquiry into the Dissent- Repression Nexus," presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Minneapolis.
Lee, Chris. 1998b. "Sorting out Dissent and Repression," presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association meeting, Chicago.
Moore, Will H. 1996. "Domestic-International Conflict Sequences," presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco. article available here |
