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Political Economic Risk Data from 62 Countries in 1987
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Description
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Political Economic Risk Data from 62 Countries in 1987.

Usage
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::

    data(PErisk)

Format
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A data frame with 62 observations on the following 6 variables. All data
points are from 1987. See Quinn (2004) for more details.

country: a factor with levels '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' 'Zimbabwe'

courts: an ordered factor with levels '0' < '1'.'courts' is an indicator
of whether the country in question is judged to have an independent
judiciary. From Henisz (2002).

barb2: a numeric vector giving the natural log of the black market
premium in each country. The black market premium is coded as the black
market exchange rate (local currency per dollar) divided by the official
exchange rate minus 1. From Marshall, Gurr, and Harff (2002).

prsexp2: an ordered factor with levels '0' < '1' < '2' < '3' < '4' <
'5', giving the lack of expropriation risk. From Marshall, Gurr, and
Harff (2002).

prscorr2: an ordered factor with levels '0' < '1' < '2' < '3' < '4' <
'5', measuring the lack of corruption. From Marshall, Gurr, and Harff
(2002).

gdpw2: a numeric vector giving the natural log of real GDP per worker in
1985 international prices. From Alvarez et al. (1999).

Source
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Mike Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi, and Adam
Przeworski. 1999. "ACLP Political and Economic Database." <URL:
http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~cheibub/data/>.

Witold J. Henisz. 2002. "The Political Constraint Index (POLCON)
Dataset." \\ <URL:
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." <URL:
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/stfail/index.htm>.

References
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Kevin M. Quinn. 2004. "Bayesian Factor Analysis for Mixed Ordinal and
Continuous Response." *Political Analyis*. Vol. 12, pp.338–353.
