Count of coups by Powell and Thyne. Described in Powell and Thyne (2011); data
is fully updated up to 2015. Original data available at
http://www.uky.edu/~clthyn2/coup_data/powell_thyne_coups_final.txt
powell_thyne
An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 474 rows and 18 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 96 distinct values. Most common:
Argentina (20), Bolivia (23), Sudan (14). NAs = 0.
- GWn
- Gleditsch-Ward numeric country code. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999).
Numeric. Max = 950, min = 40, distinct = 96, mean = 430.717, sd = 244.821, NAs
= 0.
- year
- Year. Numeric. Max = 2015, min = 1950, distinct = 65, mean =
1976.749, sd = 15.714, NAs = 0.
- date
- Date of the coup. Date. Max = 2015-09-17, min = 1950-05-10,
distinct = 468, NAs = 0.
- coup
- Coup type. 1 = unsuccessful, 2 = successful. Numeric. Max = 2, min
= 1, distinct = 2, mean = 1.498, sd = 0.501, NAs = 0.
- attempt_type
- Character version of coup. Character with 2 distinct
values. Most common: Successful (236), Unsuccessful (238). NAs = 0.
- powell_country
- Country name in the original dataset. Character with 97
distinct values. Most common: Argentina (20), Bolivia (23), Sudan (14). NAs =
0.
- GWc
- Gleditsch-Ward alphabetic country code. See Gleditsch and Ward
(1999). Character with 96 distinct values. Most common: ARG (20), BOL (23), SUD
(14). NAs = 0.
- cown
- Correlates of War numeric country code. Differs from GWn for a few
country-years. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Numeric. Max = 950, min = 40,
distinct = 96, mean = 430.717, sd = 244.821, NAs = 0.
- region
- Region. Character with 15 distinct values. Most common: South
America (95), Western Africa (95), Western Asia (50). NAs = 0.
- continent
- Continent. Character with 5 distinct values. Most common:
Africa (205), Americas (146), Asia (108). 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. Other.
- 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. Other.
- microstate
- Indicator of whether the state is a microstate, according to
Gleditsch's list of microstates. Logical. TRUE = 6, FALSE = 468, NAs = 0.
- lat
- Latitude. Numeric. Max = 61.524, min = -38.416, distinct = 96, mean
= 7.889, sd = 18.345, NAs = 0.
- lon
- Longitude. Numeric. Max = 178.065, min = -90.231, distinct = 96,
mean = 2.225, sd = 59.32, NAs = 0.
- in_cow
- Whether the country-year is in the Correlates of War system of
states. Logical. TRUE = 462, FALSE = 12, NAs = 0.
- in_system
- Whether the country-year is in the Gleditsch-Ward system of
states. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Logical. TRUE = 473, FALSE = 1, NAs =
0.
References
Powell, Jonathan M., and Clayton L. Thyne. 2011. "Global Instances of Coups
from 1950 to 2010: A New Dataset." Journal of Peace Research 48 (2): 249-59.
See also
Other coups: PIPE
Other violence: fariss, navco_2