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Diplomatic Recognition of Taiwan (the Republic of China) From 1950-2007 (ICPSR 30802)
Released/updated on: 2011-03-31
Geographic coverage: Taiwan, China (Peoples Republic), Global
Time period: 1950-01-01--2007-01-01
Diplomatic recognition is generally seen as fundamental to the modern state system. While traditional studies of recognition focus on political or ideological rationales and presume a level of stability in diplomatic recognition, in the diplomatic battle between Taiwan and China neither of these assumptions hold. This is, to my knowledge, the only attempt to quantify diplomatic recognition and covers 1950-2007 for all independent sovereign nations. The paper generated from this dataset "Status for Sale: Taiwan, and the Competition for Diplomatic Recognition" finds that, counter to conventional wisdom, economic factors dictate whether a country recognizes Taiwan and that levels of democracy and other commonly proposed factors in the qualitative literature fail to reach significance.
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Intergovernmental Organization Data, 1816-1964 (ICPSR 5520)
Released/updated on: 2015-01-19
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1816-01-01--1964-01-01
This data collection describes the membership status of 148 nations in 237 inter-governmental organizations (IGO) that were in place between 1815 and 1964. Each nation is coded at five-year intervals for membership type in each listed IGO, such as full or associate membership, as well as for membership or non-membership in the international system.
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Intergovernmental Organizations, Socialization, and Member-State Interest Convergence (ICPSR 34387)
Released/updated on: 2012-10-18
This article explores the constructivists' institutional socialization hypothesis, positing that intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) make member-state interests more similar over time, thus promoting interest convergence. We first show how this hypothesis can be tested systematically using relatively new data on dyadic interest similarity and joint structured IGO membership, and then we conduct a series of empirical tests. Our results show strong statistical support for the institutional socialization hypothesis, using both global and more restricted regional samples. We also demonstrate how our results are consistent with a longer-term socialization process and cannot be explained by the short-term effect of institutional information. Finally, we show some limits to the institutional socialization hypothesis. Unstructured IGOs reveal no effect in promoting member-state interest convergence. Following recent theory arguing that great powers in the international system often use IGOs for coercive means, we find that institutional socialization gets weaker as the power imbalance within the dyad grows.
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International Governmental Organizations: Memberships and Characteristics, 1981 and 1992 (ICPSR 6737)
Released/updated on: 2006-03-30
Geographic coverage: Global
This collection contains four datasets describing the membership and characteristics of International Governmental Organizations (IGOs) in 1981 and 1992. For the International Governmental Organizations data (Parts 1 and 2), the variables consist of organizations and the countries are cases. Parts 3 and 4, the Countries and Territories data, list countries as variables and organizations as cases. Additional variables for countries include geography, gross domestic product (GDP), and status of sovereignty. Other variables used to describe the IGOs cover basis for membership, function of IGO, annual budget, and whether the IGO's function was largely scientific.