This dataset analyzes the relationship between droughts and city-level unrest in Europe from 900 to 1800 CE. It examines the non-linear impact of drought severity on conflict probability and the moderating role of different local government types, such as elected councils or burgher representation.
Use Cases
- Analyze the non-linear relationship between drought severity and the probability of city-level conflict.
- Compare conflict outcomes during droughts across different local government types, such as elected councils versus burgher representation.
- Model the disproportionate increase in conflict risk associated with droughts in the upper tail of the severity distribution.
- Investigate the role of democratic legitimacy in maintaining social stability during economic shocks like droughts.
Strengths
- Covers a long historical time range from 900 to 1800 CE.
- Focuses on a specific analytical relationship between environmental shocks and social conflict.
- Examines a key moderating variable: the type of local city government.
Limitations
- The specific data structure, column names, and sample size are unknown.
- Geographic coverage within Europe is not specified.
- Data may be derived from historical archives with potential inconsistencies in record-keeping.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- 900 to 1800 CE
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Europe