dimits-ts/sport-repression-repl-study

A replication Study for the recent paper "International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup" paper.

Replication Study for: International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup

This project attempts to replicate and verify the results and findings of the recent paper International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup using the provided datasets and methodology.

We recreate the data and graphs used to justify the paper's findings, create and run regression models to verify the statistical plausibility of the findings while including concise descriptions of the ideas and methods used in the original paper.

Running the project

The project was developed using jupyter notebook. To run the notebook instance you need to have jupyter notebook installed. You also need to have the matplotlib, pandas, numpy and statmodels python libraries installed.

Our datasets are taken from the study's provided datasets. You can download a compiled version including their correct versions, as well as the important Supporting Information document here.

To run the project, clone the repository or download it from Github, then navigate to the file's directory, download and place the datasets in a folder named "data" inside the project directory and finally run jupyter notebook "sport_repression.ipynb" in your terminal.

Alternatively, a pdf version is provided in this project.