| PErisk {MCMCpack} | R Documentation |
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 Zimbabwe0 <
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.