Capital Proximity Dyadic
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | |
| Technical name | geo_cap_prox_cshapes |
| Category | Geography |
| Label | Capital Distance |
| Related indicators | geo_cap_dist_cshapes |
This indicator expresses the proximity of two capital cities. Time coverage is from 1880 to 2010, however, the network itself is time invariant.
Coding rules
The calculation of distances between capitals is described in detail in Eiser et al (2020). The corresponding data set is available in the Global Welfare State Information System WeSIS (www.wesis.org). To ensure that an increasing geographical distance is represented as a decrease in the intensity of contact, we calculated the inverse of distance. The value for the contact between two countries i and j due to geographical proximity is therefore:
proximity of i/j = 1 / capital distance
Bibliographic info
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Project manager(s): Lara Eiser (A01), Michael Lischka (A01), Ivo Mossig (A01)
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- Nils B. Weidmann , Doreen Kuse & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (2010) The Geography of the International System: The CShapes Dataset, International Interactions, 36:1, 86-106, DOI: 10.1080/03050620903554614
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