case identifier, country code+group id
country id number
group's alpha code identifier
abridged (8-letter) country name
full name of group
cultural differences index
political differences index
economic differences index
gdp per capita (from world bank data)
nature of electoral system(legislative)
type of political system, democracy =10
year of observation
first election in current regime
is the country federal or not?
parliamentary or presidential, ordinal
parliamentary or pres, dichotomous
minorities project region id.
group concentration
protest one( protest in this year)
rebellion this year
lags(prot1,1)
lags(reb1,1)
conflict among groups
lags(comcon1,1)
election system recode for pr
are institutions/regime older than ten years?
has regime lasted more than 20 years?
polity dem-aut > 0
polity dem-aut > 5
democracies (>10) ten or younger
electoral system, combining major and plural
pure pr versus all other systems
is the system one of proportional democracy (pr and dem-aut>0) or not?
code for group/yr observation
concentrated or not, dichotomous
majoritarian/plurality or not
interaction term: groupcon and electoral system
change in gdp/cap from previous year