Replication data for Decompressing to prevent unrest

Replication Package – Decompressing to Prevent Unrest David Altman, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 1. Description This dataset accompanies the article: Altman, David. “Decompressing to prevent unrest: political participation through citizen-initiated mechanisms of direct democracy” (2025), Social Movement Studies. It contains the data and code necessary to replicate all statistical analyses and tables presented in the article. 2. Coverage Time frame: 1970–2019 Countries: 116 democracies worldwide (electoral and liberal, according to V-Dem v14) Unit of analysis: Country-year 3. Data Sources V-Dem v14 (Coppedge et al., 2024): direct democracy indices (CIC-DPVI, TOC-DPVI), civil society participation index. NAVCO 1.3 (Chenoweth & Shay, 2020): violent and nonviolent resistance campaigns (dependent variable). World Bank, World Development Indicators: GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$), inflation. Author’s coding: harmonization and cleaning of datasets, construction of dependent variable (excluding self-determination/secession cases). 4. Variables accepted: dichotomous dependent variable (1 if violent or nonviolent regime-change/“other” campaign occurred in a given year; 0 otherwise). CIC_DPVI: citizen-initiated component of V-Dem’s Direct Popular Vote Index. TOC_DPVI: top-down component of direct democracy (plebiscites, obligatory referenda). pc_GDP: GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$). Inflation: annual inflation (%). v2x_cspart: Civil Society Participation Index (V-Dem). country, year: identifiers. 5. Files Included data.dta / data.csv – panel dataset used in the article. master.do – Stata do-file to reproduce all analyses. tables.do – generates Tables 1–2. figures.do – generates Figure 1 (coefficient plot). ReadMe.txt – this document. 6. Instructions Open master.do in Stata (v17 or later). Set working directory to the folder containing the replication package. Run the file. This will: Load data.dta Estimate the models (fixed-effects and random-effects logit with lagged IVs) Produce Tables 1–2 in /results/ Produce Figure 1 in /figures/ 7 Citation If you use this dataset, please cite: Altman, David (2025). Replication data for: Decompressing to Prevent Unrest: Political Participation through Citizen-Initiated Mechanisms of Direct Democracy. Harvard Dataverse. DOI: [to be added]