Citeulike tagging suggestions

The citeulike bibliography website at www.citeulike.org provides an opportunity for academic specialists on cleavage to work together to produce a comprehensive bibliography of key works in the field.  One of the most important features of citeulike (as with other services such as flickr and del.icio.us) is the opportunity to index articles according to an almost unlimited number of tags.  While tags offer an extremely flexible and intuitive mechanism for indexing data, they are sometimes limited by inconsistency (an article tagged "cleavage" will not appear to a user who searches "cleavages") and so it is useful to have a common starting vocabulary.  The suggestions below offer some suggestions for standardizing tags within several basic categories.  These are not meant to limit creativity (which would defeat the purpose of a tag system) but rather to limit variation among the words used for particular categories.  Please post any suggestions or modifications at the bottom and we can incorporate those into the general schema.

UNIVERSAL TAGS: Tag all articles that are relevant with these two tags:

1. ecpr2007cleavages
2. cleavages

GENERAL RESEARCH DESIGN:  Tag aspects of the paper related to its geographic and temporal scope, data source and analysis method and conceptual contributions.

Size. 

1. case-study
2. small-N
3. large-N

Region.  Specify all regions that apply using categories derived from the World Bank (See map): 

1. advanced-industrial (This includes North America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel.)
2. east-asia (This includes South-East Asia, Indonesia, Pacific)
3. east-europe (This includes Central Europe, Balkans, Turkey, former USSR and Central Asia.)
4. latin-america (This includes the Caribbean.)
5. middle-east (This includes North Africa.)
6. south-asia (This includes India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh.)
7. africa (sub-Saharan.)
8. If the work focuses on a relatively small number of countries or includes relevant case studies, specify the particular country or countries.

Period.  Specify any decades central to the research (for example, for 1970-2005, include 70s 80s 90s 00s)

1. historical (pre-1950’s)
2. 50s
3. 60s
4. 70s
5. 80s
6. 90s
7. 00s

Data Structure.  Specify the data structure if design size is either small-N or large-N.

1. cross-sectional
2. time-series
3. tscs (Time-series cross-sectional, including other forms of multi-level data structures)

Data Source.  Specify the source of quantitative or qualitative data. 

1. mass-surveys
2. elite-surveys
3. expert-surveys
4. manifestos
5. censuses
6. media
7. legislative-activity
8. institutional-rules

Quantitative Method. Specify any particular method that plays a strong role in quantitative data analysis:

1. linear-model (This includes regression, logit, and probit analyses)
2. factor (This includes scaling and principal components analyses.)
3. classification (This includes cluster and discriminate analyses).

Concepts and Measures.  Tag papers that grapple in a sustained way with abstract conceptual or measurement issues related to cleavages (as opposed to those which use existing concepts or measures to deal with new cases or applications.)

1. conceptualization (This includes attempts to define cleavage in new terms, or  critique or synthesize existing definitions of cleavage.)
2. operationalization (This includes attempts to find new indicators for concepts, or critique or synthesize existing indicators.)
3. measurement ­(This includes attempts to find new data sources or to re-interpret—i.e., critique or synthesize—existing data sources.)

SUBJECT SPECIFICS: Tag aspects of the paper specifically related to the subject including number, type, cause and consequence of the cleavage(s)

Cleavage Number.

1. unidimensional (This includes papers focusing on cases with a relatively simple or tightly overlapping cleavage space such as those determined by an all-encompassing “left-right”.)
2. multidimensional (This includes papers focusing on cases with complex, cross-cutting cleavages.)

Cleavage Type.

1. socio-economic
2. urban-rural
3. ethnic-cultural (This includes immigration/xenophobia.)
4. religious
5. regime type
6. post-materialist
7. foreign-policy (This includes European Union integration.)

Cleavage Politicization. 

1. latent
2. politicized
3. particized

Cleavage Explanations.  If the paper treats cleavages as a dependent variable, what does the paper hypothesize to be the primary explanation(s) for the cleavage?

1. society-driven (This includes causes “from below” such as classes, religions, ethnicities, regions, education, gender, age.)
2. elite-driven (This includes causes “from above” such as individual leaders and party strategies.)
3. formal-institution-driven (This includes formal institutional rules such as electoral laws or federal constitutions.)
4. informal-institution-driven (This includes civil society and clientelist networks.)
5. policy-driven (This includes particular choices such as type of welfare-state or language policy.)
6. externally-driven (such as membership in, prospect of joining or direct intervention by international institutions such as the EU or UN; also precipitated by significant international events, such as terrorist attacks.)

Cleavage Causes.  If the paper treats cleavages as an independent variable for explaining some other phenomenon.

1. impact-on-democracy (This includes duration and quality, includes consolidation, stability, volatility.)
2. impact-on-representation (This includes turnout, satisfaction, elite-mass correspondence.)
3. impact-on-policy (This includes specific policy outcomes promoted by particular cleavages.)
4. impact-on-parties (This includes party system size and volatility and party organization.)
5. impact-on-formal-institutions (This includes formal institutions such as constitutions or electoral laws.)
6. impact-on-demographics (refers to role of cleavages in shaping construction of demographic categories and communities.)
7. impact-on-values (refers to role of cleavages in shaping overall value structures.)
8. impact-on-conflict (refers to role of cleavages in shaping violent conflict among groups.)

SUGGESTED MODIFICATIONS: Please leave any suggestions or modifications in the space below.