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