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Replication Data for Does Information Lead to Emulation? Spatial Dependence in Anti-Government Violence
No full textThis study examines whether acts of anti-government violence exhibit spatial dependence across state boundaries. In other words, to what extent can acts of anti-government violence in one country be attributed to violence in neighboring countries? Past research, which has largely focused on civil war or large-scale conflict contagion, finds that geographically proximate states are more likely to experience the cross-boundary diffusion of conflict due to action emulation. However, this assumes that actors are fully aware of conflicts occurring in neighboring countries. To address this, the article argues that the proliferation of communication technology increases access to information about events in neighboring states, thereby allowing emulation to occur and subsequently conditioning the potential for violence to spread. It tests this expectation by modeling the effects of a unique spatial connectivity matrix that incorporates both state contiguity and access to communication technology. An analysis of all acts of anti-government violence in 44 African countries from 2000 to 2011 supports the argument
Replication Data for Does Information Lead to Emulation? Spatial Dependence in Anti-Government Violence
No full textThis study examines whether acts of anti-government violence exhibit spatial dependence across state boundaries. In other words, to what extent can acts of anti-government violence in one country be attributed to violence in neighboring countries? Past research, which has largely focused on civil war or large-scale conflict contagion, finds that geographically proximate states are more likely to experience the cross-boundary diffusion of conflict due to action emulation. However, this assumes that actors are fully aware of conflicts occurring in neighboring countries. To address this, the article argues that the proliferation of communication technology increases access to information about events in neighboring states, thereby allowing emulation to occur and subsequently conditioning the potential for violence to spread. It tests this expectation by modeling the effects of a unique spatial connectivity matrix that incorporates both state contiguity and access to communication technology. An analysis of all acts of anti-government violence in 44 African countries from 2000 to 2011 supports the argument
EPI Full Reproduction Files
No full textThis folder contains all the files needed to fully reproduce the EPI indicators
Elections Performance Index Indicators 2008–2016
No full textThis dataset includes the non-normalized indicator values for all indicators used in the Elections Performance Index
Elections Performance Index Indicators 2008–2016
No full textThis dataset includes the non-normalized indicator values for all indicators used in the Elections Performance Index
Elections Performance Index 2016
No full textThis dataset includes the calculated index scores for the 2016 EPI and the number of indicators used for each state
Elections Performance Index 2016
No full textThis dataset includes the calculated index scores for the 2016 EPI and the number of indicators used for each state
EPI Full Reproduction Files
No full textThis folder contains all the files needed to fully reproduce the EPI indicators
Replication Data for: Interpretation: The Final Spatial Frontier
No full textThe use of spatial econometric models in political science has steadily risen in recent years. However, the interpretation of these models has generally ignored the important substantive, and even spatial, nature of the estimated effects. This leaves many papers with a (non-spatial) interpretation of coefficients on the covariates and a brief discussion of the sign and strength of the spatial parameter. We introduce a general approach to interpreting spatial models and provide several avenues for an exposition of substantive spatial effects. Our approach can be generalized to most models in the spatial econometric taxonomy. Building on the example of the diffusion of democracy, we elucidate how our approach can be applied to modern political science problems
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