Government 2000: R Resources

Code

• Replication of Fearon-Laitin Table 1 Model 1: FearonLaitin.R and FearonLaitin.Rout

• Lagged difference example: difference1.R

• Replication of Beck, Katz, Alvarez, Garrett and Lange (1993) example: agl1.R and agl1.Rout

• Mesurement error simulations based on Beck, Katz, Alvarez, Garrett and Lange (1993): MeasurementError1.R and MeasurementError1.Rout

Data

• Fearon Laitin data: . FearonLaitin.dpt From American Political Science Review Volume 97, No. 1. Feb 2003.
  

• Alvarez, Garrett and Lange data ("agl1.dpt"):
  For details see the following articles which are available via JSTOR: Nathaniel Beck, Jonathan Katz, Michael Alvarez, Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange. "Government Partisanship, Labor Organization and Macroeconomic Performance: A Corrigendum." American Political Science Review 87(4) December 1993: 945-948.
  And an earlier article using the same data: R. Michael Alvarez, Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange. "Government Partisanship, Labor Organization and Macroeconomic Performance, 1967-1984." American Political Science Review 85(3) June 1991: 539-556.

Links

• R Project Homepage: http://www.r-project.org/

• R Manuals: http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html