Replication Data for 'The Geopolitics of Progress' (Taiwan and Japan, 2014–2019)

This dataset contains the monthly Geopolitical Opportunity Structure (GOS) indicators for Taiwan and Japan from January 2014 through December 2019, compiled to support the analysis in the manuscript “The Geopolitics of Progress: Taiwan’s Democratic Identity, Contested Sovereignty, and the Strategic Imperative of Same‑Sex Marriage.” The dataset operationalizes four core indicators—external threat salience, international reward potential, transnational advocacy count, and normative diffusion—at the country‑month level and is intended for replication, robustness checks, and secondary analysis.