This repository contains code and data for the quantitative analysis featured in our Briefing: How cynical leaders are whipping up nationalism to win and abuse power.
To replicate our analysis, run the following scripts:
- Script 1: This script collects the data we use from our sources and prepares it for analysis
- Script 2: This script replicates all the original quantitative analysis featured in the article, as well as the charts and map therein.
- Coppedge et al, 2023. "V-Dem [Country-Year/Country-Date] Dataset v13" Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemds23
- Pemstein et al, 2023. “The V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data”. V-Dem Working Paper No. 21. 8th edition. University of Gothenburg: Varieties of Democracy Institute
- Transparency International, 2023. Corruption Perception Index 2022. available at: http://www.transparency.org/cpi
- United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects 2022
The Economist, Looters with flags. The Economist, September 2nd, 2023. Available at: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/08/31/how-cynical-leaders-are-whipping-up-nationalism-to-win-and-abuse-power