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This dataset is designed to accompany the book, Foweraker, Joe and Landman, Todd (1997) <i>Citizenship, Rights and Social Movements : a Comparative and Statistical Analysis</i> Oxford: Oxford University Press, which investigates the relationship between the individual political and civil rights of citizenship and social movement activity in the authoritarian cases of military Brazil (1964-1990), Pinochet's Chile (1973-1990), the one-party dominant regime of Mexico (1963-1990), and Franco's Spain (1958-1983). Through construction of a comparative and parsimonious model, the principal finding of the study is the mutual relationship between citizenship rights and social movements over and through time. The dataset can be used to replicate the results of the book or provide a resource for secondary analysis.
Main Topics:
The data are yearly time-series measures of citizenship rights, social movement activity, and socio-economic indicators for the four cases. Data include coding of primary sources and secondary sources, and existing rights and movements measures. All of the sources are contained in the bibliography of the book and and some are listed in the annotated list of variables included in the documentation. Overall there are 34 variables for the period 1945-1992; however, the time coverage for each case varies with its contextual and comparative specificity. The variables cover: the provision of the individual rights of citizenship; labour mobilization, including strike rate, strike volume, and demands; social mobilization, including social movement protest events, material, economic, political and civil demands; socio-economic indicators, including GDP growth, inflation, and energy consumption. Standard Measures: Institutional-procedural-index (IPI) coding sheet and social movement activity coding protocol are supplied with the documentation.
Purposive selection/case studies
obeys logic of `mirror image' of the most similar systems design in comparative politics (MSSD).; Each variable in the documentation contains a bibliography of sources
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
coding of primary and secondary sources on social movements
