stack-1979.csv

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Stack (1979) studied predictors of income inequality in a paper published in the American Sociological Review. He posited that more political participation and a strong Socialist party in a country would be associated with less income inequality. To control for variation in economic development, he included a measure of energy consumption, which had been identified as a reasonable economic proxy in previous studies. Stack’s data, stored in stack-1979.csv, include four attributes measured on 18 countries. The attributes are:

• country: Country name
• inequality: Ratio of the share of income received by the most wealthy population quintile (richest 20%) to the share received by the poorest 40% of the population; Higher values indicate more income inequality
• turnout: Proportion of the adult population voting in the most recent national election prior to 1972
• energy: Energy consumption per capita (expressed in million metric tons of coal equivalents; higher values indicate more economic development
• socialist: Annual average proportion of seats held by socialist parties in the national legislature, over the first twenty postwar years

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Code

# Import data
stack = readr::read_csv(file = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zief0002/pensive-giraffe/main/data/stack-1979.csv")

# View data
stack

References

Stack, S. (1979). The effects of political participation and socialist party strength on the degree of income inequality. American Sociological Review, 44(1), 168–171.