Causal model of civil strife, 1961-1965
By: principal investigator, Ted Robert Gurr
Series: ICPSR -- 5009; ICPSR (Series) -- 5009
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Resistance to Government; Political crimes and offenses; Civil war
Description: Data on 114 polities for the period 1961-1965 are contained in this dataset. Variables are of three general types: magnitudes of conspiracy, internal war, turmoil, and total strife, measures of deprivation, and measures of mediating variables. Measures of deprivation include economic and political and long and short term deprivation. Examples of mediating variables are legitimacy, coercive potential, institutionalization, past strife levels, and facilitation of strife.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1961-1965.

Gurr,Ted Robert. ''A Causal Model of Civil Strife: A Comparative Analysis Using New Indices,'' American Political Science Review, LXII, 4, (December 1968), and in Macro-Quantitative Analysis, John Gillespie and Betty Nesvold (eds.), Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, 1971.