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Bibliographic Description
ICPSR Study No.:	7452

Persistent URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07452

Title:	Conflict and Society

Principal Investigator(s):	Ted Robert Gurr

	Robin Giles

Bibliographic Citation:	Gurr, Ted Robert, and Robin Giles. CONFLICT AND SOCIETY [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07452

Scope of Study
Summary:	This data collection contains the principal indicators of independent variables developed by Ted Robert Gurr for use in testing models of the causes of civil violence. Information was gathered on 86 countries or polities worldwide and indices were constructed to meet the theoretical requirements of the investigators' research on instances of internal conflict as captured in CIVIL STRIFE EVENTS, 1955-1970 (ICPSR 7531). General categories of independent variables included in the present study are basic social properties, social processes, economic processes, social rigidities, coercive interventions, regime coercion, conflict traditions, regime characteristics, and dissident group characteristics. Aggregate measures of the dependent variables (internal conflicts) are provided in CIVIL STRIFE CONFLICT MAGNITUDES, 1955-1970 (ICPSR 7485).

Subject Term(s):	civil violence, civil rights, discrimination, dissent, economic conditions, economic indicators, government performance, national politics, political systems, political opposition, population dynamics, social change, social conflict, social control, social change, social inequality, social problems, social protest

Geographic Coverage:	Global

Time Period:	1850 - 1970

Date(s) of Collection:	1965 - 1975

Universe:	Eighty-six polities worldwide.

Data Type:	aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:	The codebook and appendix are provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Methodology
Data Source:	(1) EUROPA YEARBOOK, (2) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. PRODUCTION YEARBOOK, (3) STATEMAN'S YEARBOOK, (4) United Nations. DEMOGRAPHIC YEARBOOK, (5) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. STATISTICAL YEARBOOK, (6) United Nations. STATISTICAL YEARBOOK, (7) United Nations. YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE STATISTICS, (8) United Nations. YEARBOOK OF NATIONAL ACCOUNT STATISTICS, (9) International Labor Organization. YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LABOR STATISTICS, (10) Taylor, Charles L., and Michael C. Hudson. WORLD HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INDICATORS. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972, (11) Russett, Bruce M., et al. WORLD HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INDICATORS. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964, (12) Adeleman, Irma, and Cynthia Taft Morris. SOCIETY, POLITICS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967, (13) Banks, Arthur S., and Robert B. Textor. A CROSS POLITY SURVEY. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1963, (14) POLITY DATA: PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE IN POLITICAL SYSTEMS, 1800-1971 (ICPSR 5010), and others

Access and Availability
Note:	A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:	1984-05-03

Dataset(s):	DS1: Conflict and Society

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Description & Citation--Study No. 7452

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