***************************************************************** Replication Data for "Social Cleavages and the Number of Parties: How the Measures You Choose Affect the Answers You Get" Heather Stoll Department of Political Science University of California, Santa Barbara hstoll@polsci.ucsb.edu 3 August 2007 ***************************************************************** Variable Label Variable Description and Source enep Effective number of electoral parties, Amorim Neto and Cox (1997), Appendix lml Logged median lower tier district magnitude, natural log calculated by author of median lower tier district magnitude from Amorim Neto and Cox (1997), Appendix latdiv1 Effective number of ethnic groups based on Soviet geographers' data from 1960s (effective number transformation of ELF), Amorim Neto and Cox (1997), Appendix latdiv2 Effective number of ethnic groups, Annett (2001) latdiv3 Effective number of ethnic groups, Alesina et al. (2003) latdiv4 Effective number of ethnic groups based on Soviet geographers' data from the 1960s but with groupings defined by Roeder (2001) latdiv5 Effective number of ethnic groups based on Soviet geographers' data from the 1980s but with groupings defined by Roeder (2001) latdiv6 Effective number of linguistic groups, Alesina et al. (2003), value of 0.514 for Netherlands replaced by author's calculation of 0.263 latdiv7 Effective number of ethnic groups, Fearon (2003) latdiv8 Ethnic fractionalization, Fearon (2003) latdiv9 Ethnic polarization, calculated by author from Fearon (2003) latdiv10 Cultural fractionalization, Fearon (2003) latdiv11 Effective number of religious groups, Annett (2001) latdiv12 Effective number of religious groups, Fearon and Laitin (2003) latdiv13 Effective number of religious groups, Alesina et al. (2003) latdiv14 Religious fractionalization, Alesina et al. (2003) latdiv15 Religious polarization, calculated by author from Alesina et al. (2003) latdiv16 Average religious and ethnic fractionalization (index), Annett (2001) up Percentage of upper tier seats, Amorim Neto and Cox (1997), Appendix prox Proximity between legislative and presidential elections, Amorim Neto and Cox (1997), Appendix enpres Effective number of presidential candidates, Amorim Neto and Cox (1997), Appendix NOTE: Also see Cox (1997), Appendix C for the same data.