Anti-NGO legal barriers

This repository contains the code for plotting the cumulative number of 98 countries that have imposed some form of anti-NGO legislation between 1980 and 2013. The data comes from the replication materials for Darin Christensen and Jeremy Weinstein, "Defunding Dissent," Journal of Democracy 24, vol. 2 (2013). The acronym DCJW used throughout stands for Darin Christensen and Jeremy Weinstein.

Repository contents

Specifically, here's what's in this repository:

• 01_clean-data.R: R script that takes the original DCJW replication data and converts it into a cleaner, tidier format for analysis
• 02_plot-data.R: R script that makes the plot
• output/all_barriers.[pdf/png]: PDF and PNG versions of the plot
• data_original/DCJW_NGO_Laws.xlsx: Original replication data from the DCJW paper
• data_original/dcjw_questions.csv: Hand-typed lookup table that matches raw question names (e.g. q_1a) to human readable names (e.g. const_assoc and "Constitutional associational rights")
• data_clean/dcjw_clean.[csv/xlsx]: Cleaned up version of the original Excel file with indexes for overal counts of entry, funding, and advocacy barriers
• data_clean/dcjw_plot.[csv/xlsx]: Data with cumulative counts of barriers, in long format for plotting with R