Archigos is a collaborative effort of Hein Goemans (University of Rochester), Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (University of Essex) and Giacomo Chiozza (University of California, Berkeley). For a detailed description of the data, please refer to the case description document, available at mail.rochester.edu/~hgoemans.
171 countries with at least one year of observation both in POLITY IV and Archigos 2.5, each for 1800-2003
Authors : Hein Goemans, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Giacomo Chiozza
See http://mail.rochester.edu/~hgoemans/data for documentation and current data.
Please cite Chiozza, Giacomo and Hein Goemans and Kristian Skrede Gleditsh (2009), Introducing Archigos: A Data Set of Political Leaders. Journal of Peace Research, 46(2): 269-283.
_tv notes the variable time varies . Thus the exit variable records the eventual manner of losing office, whereas exit_tv records it only for the leader actually lost office.
end_dem = 0: country is dem in previous AND current year (democracy does not end)
end_dem = 1: country is dem in previous, dic in current year (democracy ends)
end_dem = 2: country is dic in previous year (no democracy to end)
end_dic = 0: country is dic in previous AND current year (autocracy does not end)
end_dic = 1: country is dic in previous, dem in current year (autocracy ends)
end_dic = 2: country is dem in previous year (no autocracy to end)
gdpppp95 data for Bosnia/Herzegovina; Bhutan; Brunei; */
This data set contains the data necessary to replicate Table 1 in James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, Ethnicity,Insurgency, and Civil War, _American Political Science Review_ 97, 1 (February 2003):75-90. A few additional variables are included relevant to claims made in the paper. See Fearon and Laitin, Additional Tables for Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War, at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnic/ for more information on the data contained here.
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