Transnational Social Movement Organization Dataset, 1953-2003 (ICPSR 33863)
Version Date: Jul 26, 2012 View help for published
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Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh;
Dawn Wiest, University of Pittsburgh
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33863.v1
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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.
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city
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This data collection contains characters with diacritical marks.
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Special collaborators for the Transnational Social Movement Organization Dataset, 1953-2003 include Project Manager Dawn Wiest.
Study Design View help for 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.
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Please see the "Original P.I. Methodology" section of the ICPSR codebook for details.
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Organizational population, drawn from the annual census of international organizations listed in the Union of International Associations, Yearbook of International Organizations.
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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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2012-07-16
Version History View help for Version History
- 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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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?