https://github.com/andrewheiss/ngo-barriers

Plot the cumulative number of anti-NGO legal barriers between 1980-2013
https://github.com/andrewheiss/ngo-barriers

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Plot the cumulative number of anti-NGO legal barriers between 1980-2013

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/andrewheiss/ngo-barriers
• Owner: andrewheiss
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-01-15T16:57:02.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-01-15T18:06:41.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-13T17:53:54.938Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: ngo, r
• Language: R
• Size: 435 KB
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• Watchers: 3
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# 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](https://darinchristensen.com/replication/JoD_Replication.zip) for Darin Christensen and Jeremy Weinstein, ["Defunding Dissent,"](https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/article/defunding-dissent-restrictions-aid-ngos) *Journal of Democracy* 24, vol. 2 (2013). The acronym DCJW used throughout stands for Darin Christensen and Jeremy Weinstein.

![](output/all_barriers.png)

# 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