Description

Replication data for Whitten and Williams (2011). Data structure is panels of 19 advanced democracies from 1945-2000. Data contains measurements of military spending as a percentage of GDP as well as other variables.

Usage

Format

A dataframe with the following variables:

• ccode: country identifier (Correlates of War).

• year: year identifier.

• milex_gdp: military expenditures as a percentage of GDP.

• lag_milex_gdp: military expenditures as a percentage of GDP for t-1.

• GOV_rl: left-right position of government.

• GOV_welfare: government welfare position.

• GOV_hawk1: government international position.

• gthreat: conflict involvement index.

• gthreat_GOV_rl: conflict involvement interacted with left-right position of government.

• gthreat_GOV_welfare: conflict involvement interacted with government welfare position.

• gthreat_GOV_hawk1: conflict involvement interacted with government international position.

• GOV_min: percentage of year that country had a minority government.

• GOV_npty: average number of government parties.

• election_yr: dummy variable for election year (1=election year).

• cinc: Composite Index of National Capabilities (CINC).

• alliance: alliance with US.

• real_GDP_gr: growth in real GDP per capita.

• lag_real_GDP_gr: growth in real GDP per capita for t-1.

• cinclag: CINC for t-1.

• cinc_ratio: ratio of US to Soviet CINC scores.

• us_change_milex_gdp: growth in US defense spending as a fraction of GDP.

• lag_alliance: alliance with US for t-1.

• lag_us_change_milex_gdp: growth in US defense spending as a fraction of GDP for t-1.

• lag_cinc_ratio: ratio of US to Soviet CINC scores for t-1.

Source

Whitten, Guy D. and Laron K. Williams. 2011. “Buttery Guns and Welfare Hawks: The Politics of Defense Spending in Advanced Industrial Democracies.” American Journal of Political Science 55(1): 117-134.

See Also

panelAR. Run demo(WhittenWilliams) for examples which use WhittenWilliams.