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#Explanation of source files and folders
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(1) caughey_warshaw_summary.dta

	The RAW source data of caughey/warshaw's updated mass social/econ liberalism scores. 

(2) caughey_warshaw_clean.dta

	A cleaned up version of the "summary" file above, in order to merge it with our other data (e.g. column names, etc.)

(3) csp2017_SOURCE/

	Contains several files, but only two are of note.

	3a. CorrelatesOfStatePolicyProjectv2_1.csv

		The most recent version of the CSP data, as of December 2018, from the website ippsr.msu.edu

	3b. CorrelatesOfStatePolicyProjectv2_1-3.xlsx

		A version of that updated CSP data, which contains updated values for select variables (including govparty_b, which is used to generate a variable for partisan governorship control) through 2016. 

		This XLSX file contains multiple sheets on different subjects. Thus, I exported each sheet to CSV format.

(4) pol_innov
	
	Contains two files

	(1) "SPID_v1.0_dynamic.tab"

		Source data for policy innovation downloaded from Boehmke (et al, 2018) dataverse page.

		https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/GMVOI5

		Accessed 12/13/2018

	(2) "SPIDv1.dta"

		A cleaned up Stata version of SPID, which will be used to merge with our other data.

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#Explanation of additional files/folders present in directory
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(1) csp2014.dta

	During our variable compilation step, this .dta file is created in order to facilitate merging using Stata. This Stata file is generated using "CorrelatesOfStatePolicyProjectv2_1.csv" from above.

(2) csp2017.dta

	During our variable compilation step, this .dta file is created as a merged version of all those CSV files I exported from the XLSX file, "CorrelatesOfStatePolicyProjectv2_1-3.xlsx". 

(3) csp2017_DTA/

	This directory contains Stata versions of all CSV files generated in csp2017_SOURCE, as listed above, which were exported from "CorrelatesOfStatePolicyProjectv2_1-3.xlsx". 

(4) zm_old_source

	This directory is exactly what it sounds like: a directory for me to store old source files from previous iterations of this project. These are not used in our current analyses, but I keep them as reference just in case.

