d.minaret function

Data on the voting outcome of the 2009 Swiss Minaret Initiative

Data on the voting outcome of the 2009 Swiss Minaret Initiative

This dataset is from Baumgartner and Epple (2014), who analyze the determinants of the outcome of the vote on the 2009 Swiss Minaret Initative. data

d.minaret

Format

The data frame contains 26 rows (cases) and the following 6 columns featuring raw data:

[ , 1]Arate of old xenophobia
[ , 2]Lleft party strength
[ , 3]Sshare of native speakers of Serbian, Croatian, or Albanian
[ , 4]Tstrength of traditional economic sector
[ , 5]Xrate of new xenophobia
[ , 6]Macceptance of Minaret Initiative

Contributors

Ruedi Epple: collection, documentation

Source

Baumgartner, Michael, and Ruedi Epple. 2014. A Coincidence Analysis of a Causal Chain: The Swiss Minaret Vote.

Sociological Methods & Research 43 (2):280-312.