skdreier/State_legitimacy

This is the repository for the forthcoming article, "Institutional Legitimacy in sub-Saharan Africa." # State Legitimacy This repository contains the replication material for the article: "Institutional Legitimacy in sub-Saharan Africa," which is forthcoming in *Democratization* (2019). ## Authors Sarah K. Dreier and Milli Lake. ## Recode and prepare data The original dataset merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2.sav contains the merged Afrobarometer Round 6 (2016) survey data. It is available to be downloaded from the Afrobarometer website. variable_recode.R recodes variables from the source Afrobarometer data for the purposes of this analysis. This script also subsets the recoded variables into the new dataset. ## Main analysis main_analysis.R runs the models and simulation . plots featured in the article's main analysis. The recoded, subseted used in this script, afro_courts_police.RData, can be loaded from this repository. Its object name is "data." binary_IV_plots.R simulates results from the article's main binary-IV models. All resulting figures are also posted in the repository. ## Descriptive statistics and robustness checks Original scripts for descriptive statistics tables and figures and for additional robustness-check models are available upon request. ## Questions and contact information All questions may be directed to Sarah Dreier, who is the article's first author and repository ownder (skdreier at uw dot edu).