Transnational Social Movement Organization Dataset, 1953-2003 (ICPSR 33863)

Version Date: Jul 26, 2012

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Principal Investigator(s):
Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh; Dawn Wiest, University of Pittsburgh

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33863.v1

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Summary

The protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and subsequent resistance to global trade and investment liberalization highlight the growing centralization of economic and political power in entities that transcend nation-states. These protests also challenge traditional approaches to the study of social movements, which portray movements as bounded by national or sub-national political arenas. Globalization leaves few areas of social life untouched, and sociologists are paying closer attention to how it affects our understanding of social and political processes. While globalization is not new, its relatively recent acceleration and expansion to new social domains calls for greater sociological attention. The Transnational Social Movement Organization Dataset, 1953-2003 builds upon existing sociological research and brings new data to the investigation of relationships between globalization, social movements, and political change. This project aims to enhance understanding of the organizational foundations for transnational activism, namely the population of transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs). This study contains 301 variables. The variables were either taken directly from the Yearbook of International Organizations, or created from information in the Yearbook.

Citation

Smith, Jackie, and Wiest, Dawn. Transnational Social Movement Organization Dataset, 1953-2003. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-07-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33863.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation (#SES 03-24735)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

city

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1953 -- 2003

Date of Collection

2003 -- 2005

Data Collection Notes

  1. This data collection contains characters with diacritical marks.

  2. Special collaborators for the Transnational Social Movement Organization Dataset, 1953-2003 include Project Manager Dawn Wiest.

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Study Design

This project contains data from alternate years between 1953-2003 for which data were available in English. Please see the "Original P.I. Methodology" section of the ICPSR codebook for details.

Sample

Please see the "Original P.I. Methodology" section of the ICPSR codebook for details.

Universe

Organizational population, drawn from the annual census of international organizations listed in the Union of International Associations, Yearbook of International Organizations.

Unit(s) of Observation

Organization

Data Type(s)

Description of Variables

Variables are either taken directly from the Yearbook of International Organizations, or created from information contained in the Yearbook. Variables range from information on organization name, headquarters, budget, country, status, goals, membership, and additional organization information.

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Original Release Date

2012-07-16

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Smith, Jackie, and Dawn Wiest. Transnational Social Movement Organization Dataset, 1953-2003. ICPSR33863-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-07-16. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33863.v1

2012-07-26 Additional PI has been added.

2012-07-16 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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