Selection from the Geddes, Wright, and Frantz Autocratic Regimes dataset � all_gwf_extended

A selection of variables from the dataset described in Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, and Erica Frantz. 2014. "Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A New Data Set." Perspectives on Politics 12(2): 313-331. The full data and codebook can be downloaded here http://sites.psu.edu/dictators/. The documentation below is derived from the codebook.This is the "extended" version (extended by Xavier Marquez back before 1945 with info from the case descriptions).

all_gwf_extended_yearly

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 9567 rows and 20 columns.

Variable descriptions

country_name: Standardized country name. This is the same across all datasets in this package, so you can always join them by country_name and year. Character with 155 distinct values. Most common: Luxembourg (141), Nepal (165), Netherlands (141), Oman (270), Switzerland (141). NAs = 0.
GWn: Gleditsch-Ward numeric country code. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Numeric. Max = 920, min = 2, distinct = 155, mean = 447.599, sd = 244.684, NAs = 0.
year: Year. Numeric. Max = 2010, min = 1741, distinct = 270, mean = 1970.212, sd = 34.511, NAs = 0.
gwf_full_regimetype: Regime type. Includes "democracy" and "no-authority" conditions (foreign occupation, warlordism, etc.). Factor with 16 levels. Most common: democracy (4031), military (293), military-personal (268), monarchy (1078), party (1620), party-personal (414), personal (1238). NAs = 0.
gwf_casename: Autocratic regime case name (country name and years); these are the units of observation for duration analysis. Character with 485 distinct values. Most common: Luxemburg 1870-NA (141), Netherlands 1870-NA (141), Oman 41-NA (270), Switzerland 1870-NA (141). NAs = 0.
gwf_startdate: Start date for the regime. Other.
gwf_enddate: End date for the regime. Other.
gwf_country: Country name in the original dataset. Character with 121 distinct values. Most common: Ethiopia (122), Nepal (149), Oman (270). NAs = 4203.
GWc: Gleditsch-Ward alphabetic country code. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Character with 155 distinct values. Most common: LUX (141), NEP (165), NTH (141), OMA (270), SWZ (141). NAs = 0.
cown: Correlates of War numeric country code. Differs from GWn for a few country-years. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Numeric. Max = 920, min = 2, distinct = 156, mean = 447.593, sd = 244.693, NAs = 0.
polity_ccode: Country code in Polity datasets. Differs from GWn for a few country-years. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Numeric. Max = 920, min = 2, distinct = 163, mean = 447.594, sd = 244.701, NAs = 0.
region: Region. Character with 19 distinct values. Most common: Western Africa (767), Western Asia (1049), Western Europe (820). NAs = 0.
continent: Continent. Character with 5 distinct values. Most common: Africa (2436), Asia (2674), Europe (2543). NAs = 0.
GW_startdate: Date at which the state entered the system of states according to Gleditsch and Ward, or NA if it has never been a member. Date. Max = 2006-06-05, min = 1816-01-01, distinct = 121, NAs = 0.
GW_enddate: Date at which the state ceased to be a member of the system of states according to Gleditsch and Ward, or NA if it still exists. Date. Max = 2006-06-04, min = 1975-04-30, distinct = 6, NAs = 9369.
microstate: Indicator of whether the state is a microstate, according to Gleditsch's list of microstates. Logical. TRUE = 0, FALSE = 9567, NAs = 0.
lat: Latitude. Numeric. Max = 64.963, min = -40.901, distinct = 155, mean = 22.103, sd = 25.241, NAs = 0.
lon: Longitude. Numeric. Max = 174.886, min = -106.347, distinct = 155, mean = 18.573, sd = 59.59, NAs = 0.
in_cow: Whether the country-year is in the Correlates of War system of states. Logical. TRUE = 9272, FALSE = 295, NAs = 0.
in_system: Whether the country-year is in the Gleditsch-Ward system of states. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Logical. TRUE = 9456, FALSE = 111, NAs = 0.

References

Geddes, Barbara, Joseph Wright, and Erica Frantz (2014). "Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A New Data Set." Perspectives on Politics 12 (1): 313-31. doi:10.1017/S1537592714000851.

Gleditsch, Kristian S. & Michael D. Ward. 1999. "Interstate System Membership: A Revised List of the Independent States since 1816." International Interactions 25: 393-413. The list can be found at http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ksg/statelist.html

Selection from the Geddes, Wright, and Frantz Autocratic Regimes dataset

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