Doherty_Schraeder_Dobbs_Replication.zip – Research Data for "Do Democratic Revolutions 'Activate' Participants?: The Case of Tunisia"

This archive contains materials to replicate the analysis reported in: Doherty, David, Peter J. Schraeder, and Kirstie L. Dobbs. "Do Democratic Revolutions 'Activate' Participants?: The Case of Tunisia"

The root directory includes five Stata DO files (run on Stata 14.1). The file replication.do calls the other four DO files. These other four DO files conduct analysis specific to a particular dataset. In the case of arab_barometer_w2.do and afrobarometer.do the files simply do necessary recoding and output summary statistics.

The remaining two DO files use two datasets used to conduct the statistical analysis reported in the paper. They also complete recoding to ensure that variables from these two datasets are coded similarly. The file replication.do then stacks the recoded data to complete the core analysis reported.

The directory includes four folders:

1) prepped_data: this folder is where the two recoded datasets that are stacked for the core analysis are deposited. It is empty in this archive.

2) private_data: Empty folder referred to in commented out code. The only file originally included in this folder was the full dataset from the original survey used in the analysis. The commented out code (top of "orig_survey.do") stripped out variables not used in the analysis and saved the resulting dataset in the raw_data folder.

3) raw_data: Contains all datasets used in the analysis. The tunisia_2012_survey.dta file is from our original survey. The remaining files were downloaded from the Arab Barometer and AfroBarometer websites.

4) tables: Empty folder where tables and figures are saved.

To run the analysis, users should simply set the directory at the top of the replication.do file.