DATA DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH - PHASE-I - INTERNATIONALCONFLICT AND NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

In 1986 developers and users of quantitative data in international and comparative politics organized to maintain, extend, and develop major datasets and to provide a stronger basis for coordinating data-relate d activities. National Science Foundation funding established for a th ree-year period Data Development for International Research. Its first phase (DDIR-I) focused on improving datasets on both national capabil ities and international conflict; and generating renewed efforts to be tter the data collections on internation events and international poli tical economy. DDIR-I's work, now virtually complete, augmented the qu antity and quality of this national data resource and set the stage fo r another NSF-funded project on internation event data (DDIR-II). A fi nal report on DDIR-II is forthcoming in summer 1994.