Dimensions of Democide,
Power, Violence, and Nations

THE METHOD

• Article: understanding factor analysis

FACTOR ANALYSES AND DATA ON NATIONS

• Politics and political systems
  • Tables: data on and dimensions of political systems and their indicators [5]
  • Table: dimensions and indicators of politics [8]
  • Appendix [15]
    • Table: component analysis of political variables
    • Table: common factor analysis of freedom scores and all other variables
    • Table: common factor analysis of freedom, human security, and other scores

• Collective violence
  • Table: dimensions and indicators [8]
  • Appendix [15]
    • Table: component analysis of instability and violence
    • see other factor analysis tables in the Appendix, which contain
      factor scores for a violence dimension

• Democide
  • Tables: data on and dimensions of democide and their indicators [5]

• Social diversity
  • Tables: data on and dimensions of diversity and their indicators [5]
  • Table: dimensions and indicators of social pluralism [8]

• Cultural and socio-economic characteristics
  • Tables: data on and dimensions of cultural variation and their indicators [5]
  • Table: dimensions and indicators of cultural and socio-economic characteristics [8]
  • Tables: data on and dimensions of socio-economic/geographic measures and their indicators [5]
  • Appendix [15]
    • Table: component analysis of human development variables
    • Table: component analysis of economic development variables
    • Table: component analysis of other variables

• Human security
  • Appendix [15]
    • Table: component analysis of human security variables
    • Table: common factor analysis of human security scores

• The social field
  • Table: dimensions of the social field, including democide [5]
  • Chapter: International sociocultural space-time [13]
    • Table: space-time components
  • Chapter: International behavior space-time [13]
    • Table: space-time components
    • Table: space-time higher order components

Q-FACTOR ANALYSIS (GROUPING OF NATIONS)

• Table: groups of nations that are most alike in their characteristics [11]

CANONICAL (PREDICTION) ANALYSES

• Table: violence predicted by pluralism, politics, socio-economic indicators, and culture [8]
• Tables and chapter: democide predicted by social indicators [table 22.5 of Chapter 22] [5]

The figure in the upper right is from Figure 17.2 of Statistics of Democide.

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