Osa                   package:QCA                   R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The *Osa* data frame has 24 rows and 6 columns.

     This data is drawn from a study which analyzes twenty-four cases
     of occurrence/non-occurrence of  mobilization in non-democratic
     states to determine conditions of political opportunity in 
     high-risk authoritarian contexts. Political opportunity is
     sensitive to conditions created by  divided elites, changes in
     repression, media access, influential allies, and social networks

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(Osa)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     The dataset contains the following columns:

       DYNA    Dynamics of repression, coded 1 for evidence of increase in long-term and/or short-term
               state repression, 0 for evidence of decrease
       ACCESS  Media access - coded 1 if the public information flow concerning a particular event
               of popular mobilization is controlled by the political authorities (via censorship
               or ban on foreign media), 0 if there was evidence of sustained relaxation of state
               censorship or substantive presence of foreign and/or underground media
       INFLU   Influential allies - coded 1 for presence of domestic or foreign politically
               influential groups supporting popular mobilization; 0 for absence of such
               organizational support
       ELITE   Division of elites, coded 1 - evidence of competing factions within the ruling elites;
               0 - relatively unified ruling group
       SOCIAL  Social networks - coded 1if mobilization resulted from the activity of interconnected
               groups, 0 if organizational and/or individual ties were severely destroyed or impeded
               to emerge by the state
       OUT     Social mobilization, coded 1 for major episodes of sustained collective action
               opposing state policies by participants drawn from nonelite or repressed segments
               of society in non-democratic regimes, 0 - non-mobilization

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     <URL: http://www.compasss.org>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Osa, Maryjane and Corduneanu-Huci, Cristina 2003 _Running Uphill:
     Political Opportunity in Non-democracies_, Comparative Sociology
     2(4), pp. 605-629(25)

