Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An Experiential Approach to Societal Continuity and Change
- 3 Civil Society and Democratization
- 4 Post-Communist Civil Society in Comparative Perspective: An Empirical Baseline
- 5 Explaining Organizational Membership: An Evaluation of Alternative Hypotheses
- 6 Why Post-Communist Citizens Do Not Join Organizations: An Interpretive Analysis
- 7 Conclusion
- Appendix A Coding of the Variables
- Appendix B Country Scores on the Main Variables
- Appendix C The Post-Communist Organizational Membership Study (PCOMS) Survey
- Appendix D The In-Depth Interviews
- References
- Index
Appendix A - Coding of the Variables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An Experiential Approach to Societal Continuity and Change
- 3 Civil Society and Democratization
- 4 Post-Communist Civil Society in Comparative Perspective: An Empirical Baseline
- 5 Explaining Organizational Membership: An Evaluation of Alternative Hypotheses
- 6 Why Post-Communist Citizens Do Not Join Organizations: An Interpretive Analysis
- 7 Conclusion
- Appendix A Coding of the Variables
- Appendix B Country Scores on the Main Variables
- Appendix C The Post-Communist Organizational Membership Study (PCOMS) Survey
- Appendix D The In-Depth Interviews
- References
- Index
Summary
The following describes the coding for each of the variables used in the statistical analysis in Chapter 4.
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
Organizational membership. “Now I am going to read off a list of voluntary organizations; for each one, could you tell me whether you are an active member, an inactive member, or not a member of that type of organization?” The question referred to the following types of organizations: (1) church or religious organizations, (2) sports or recreational clubs, (3) educational, cultural, or artistic organizations, (4) labor unions, (5) political parties or movements, (6) environmental organizations, (7) professional associations, (8) charitable organizations, and (9) any other voluntary organization. The dependent variable is an index of the total number of claimed memberships (active or inactive), with a minimum score of 0 and a maximum score of 9. In the country-level analysis, the dependent variable refers to the average number of organizational memberships per person for the entire country.
COUNTRY-LEVEL INDEPENDENT VARIABLES
GDP per capita. The figures come from the 1998 CIA World Factbook, and they are coded in thousands of US dollars.
Political rights and civil liberties. The scores come from the Freedom House “Annual Survey of Freedom House Country Scores, 1972–73 to 1998–99.” The figures used in the analysis represent the average of the political rights scores and the civil liberties scores for both 1995–96 and 1996–97, with the 1–7 scale flipped, so that a higher score corresponds to greater political rights and civil liberties.
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- The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe , pp. 164 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003