Bruce M. Russett
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Bruce Martin Russett (born 1935) is Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Professor in International and Area Studies, MacMillan Center, Yale University, and edited the Journal of Conflict Resolution from 1972 to 2009. Source
Books
World handbook of political and social indicators, 1961-1963
This study contains data for 141 polities in the form of 70 variables. Data are interval level social, political, economic, and demographic indicators and are generally for 1961-1963.
Governance, Accountability, and the Future of the Catholic Church
Economic interpretations of American intervention, 1964-1968
The data consist of 4 separate files dealing with fluctuations in stock market figures during the Korean and Vietnam wars: 1) daily Dow-Jones industrial averages and net changes from Jan. 1, 1964, to Dec. 31, 1968 (4 variables), 2) net changes in Dow-Jones industrial averages on 76 major event days during the Korean war (12 variables), 3) net changes in Dow-Jones industrial averages on the days of publication of the weekly casualty lists from Vietnam (4 variables), 4) net changes in Dow-Jones industrial averages on 94 major event days during the Vietnam war, plus net changes in stocks of 10 firms with substantial involvement in less developed countries, and 15 defense related firms (35 variables).
World handbook of political and social indicators I and A cross-polity survey
The data from these two collections were merged on country codes. As the polities included in A Cross Polity Survey are subset of those included in the Handbook, missing data codes have been assigned to countries with no Cross-Polity information.