OPEC countries Compared by Terrorism > Collective Political Violence in the 1990's combined
DEFINITION:
Three classifications of states for further
comparative analysis: states experiencing collective political violence with excessive targeting of
civilians (CPVCIV), states experiencing political violence without excessive targeting of
civilians (CPVNOCIV), and states without collective political violence. The first two
classifications provided ordinal magnitude scales, ranging from 1 to 4; the third classification
was used as a common baseline control set (scaled value “0�).
Collective Political Violence with Excessive Targeting of Civilians (CPVCIV)
CPV recoded into CPVCIV
8 4
7 3
5 2
3 1
Collective Political Violence without Excessive Targeting of Civilians (CPVNOCIV)
CPV recoded into CPVNOCIV
6 4
4 3
2 2
1 1.
