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 association between environmental shocks and social unrest using historical European data spanning 900-1800 CE.
Strengths
- Covers a long historical time range from 900 to 1800 CE.
- Focuses on city-level data for granular analysis of unrest.
- Examines specific government types like elected councils and burgher representation as key variables.
Limitations
- The dataset's specific variables, column structure, and row count are unknown.
- Data is historical and may have gaps or inconsistencies in record-keeping.
- Geographic coverage is limited to Europe, limiting generalizability to other regions.
Provenance
- Source
- Evan Wigton-Jones via ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- 900 to 1800 CE
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Europe