The Cultural Resource Curse: How Trade Dependence Undermines Creative Industries

This dataset and code package reproduces the analysis from the paper Arbitrary Power and Institutional Legacies from Shakespeare to Cervantes. It investigates whether executive constraint, rather than English-language dominance, predicts national cultural export performance. 📁 Files Included: Shakespeare.ipynb: Main Google Colab notebook with code for cleaning, merging, and analyzing data culture_exports.csv: UNESCO-based panel dataset of cultural exports (2005–2019) GDPPC.csv: World Bank GDP per capita data p5v2018.csv: Polity5 dataset with institutional indicators ▶️ How to Run: Open the Jupyter notebook in Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com Upload the four files above to your Colab session. Run all cells in Shakespeare.ipynb. All dependencies (e.g. pandas, statsmodels) are installed automatically. The notebook performs data wrangling, creates a binary indicator for Anglosphere countries, and runs an OLS regression with clustered standard errors. Regression results replicate the core finding: institutional constraints on executive power (xconst) are statistically significant predictors of cultural export success, while Anglosphere status is not. 🔍 Citation: If citing this dataset, please use DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16422736 License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)