Osa {QCAGUI}R Documentation

Political Opportunity in Non-democracies

Description

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

Usage

data(Osa)

Format

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

Source

http://www.compasss.org

References

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


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