The Geddes Wright and Frantz Autocratic Regimes dataset

The dataset described in B. Geddes, J. Wright, and E. Frantz. "Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A New Data Set". In: Perspectives on Politics 12.1 (2014), pp. 313-331. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592714000851. The full data and codebook can be downloaded here: http://sites.psu.edu/dictators/. The documentation below is derived from the codebook. Some variables apply to the country-year version, some to the case version and some to the "extended" version (extended back before 1945 with info from the case descriptions).

gwf_all

gwf_all_extended

gwf_autocratic

gwf_autocratic_extended

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 7954 rows and 20 columns.

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 9411 rows and 20 columns.

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 4591 rows and 21 columns.

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 5301 rows and 21 columns.

Source

B. Geddes, J. Wright, and E. Frantz. "Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A New Data Set". In: Perspectives on Politics 12.1 (2014), pp. 313-331. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592714000851. The full data and codebook can be downloaded here: http://sites.psu.edu/dictators/.

Details

gwf_cowcode: Correlates of War (CoW) country code
year: Calendar year. In the "extended_yearly" version of the dataset, these have been calculated back before 1945 from the information available in the casenames.
gwf_country: Country name
gwf_casename: Autocratic regime case name (country name and years); these are the units of observation for duration analysis
gwf_regimetype: Regime type: not independent, foreign-occupied, warlord, democracy, provisional, monarchy, personalist, military, party, party-personalist, party-military, military-personalist, party-military-personalist. Only includes non-democratic regime types.
gwf_duration: Duration of regime up to time t. In the "extended" datasets this always starts at 1.
gwf_fail: Binary indicator for regime failure
gwf_disagree: Binary indicator for country-year observations where GWF coding of democracy differs from CGV (here pacl) coding of democracy
gwf_startdate: Day-Month-Year for the calendar date of the autocratic regime start event. Only in gwf_autocratic datasets.
gwf_enddate: Day-Month-Year for the calendar date of the autocratic regime failure event (31-12-2010 for right-censored autocratic regimes). Only in gwf_autocratic datasets.
gwf_spell: Time-invariant duration of autocratic regime
gwf_fail_subs: Categorical variable marking the subsequent regime type. 1: subsequent regime is democracy 2: subsequent regime is autocratic 3: subsequent regime is warlord, foreign-occupied or ceases to exist 0: no regime failure at duration time t ; and regime still in power December 31, 2010
gwf_fail_type: Categorical variable marking how the autocratic regime ends. 1: regime insiders change rules of regime 2: incumbent loses elections 3: no incumbent runs in competitive election won by opponent 4: popular uprising 5: military coup 6: insurgents, revolutionaries, or combatants fighting a civil war 7: foreign imposition or invasion 8: new autocratic leader selected, changes rules, and remains in power 9: state ceases to exist ends or government fails to control most of the country's territory 0: regime still in power on December 31, 2010
gwf_fail_violent: Categorical variable marking the level of violence during the autocratic regime failure event. 1: no deaths 2: 1-25 deaths 3: 26-1000 deaths 4: >1000 0: regime still in power on December 31, 2010
gwf_party: Binary indicator of party regime type (groups party-based, party-personal, party-military, party-personal-military, oligarchy, and Iran 1979-2010)
gwf_personal: Binary indicator of personalist regime type
gwf_military: Binary indicator of military regime type (groups military, military-personal, indirect military)
gwf_monarchy: Binary indicator of monarchy regime type

Standard descriptive variables (generated by this package)

extended_country_name: The name of the country in the Gleditsch-Ward system of states, or the official name of the entity (for non-sovereign entities and states not in the Gleditsch and Ward system of states) or else a common name for disputed cases that do not have an official name (e.g., Western Sahara, Hyderabad). The Gleditsch and Ward scheme sometimes indicates the common name of the country and (in parentheses) the name of an earlier incarnation of the state: thus, they have Germany (Prussia), Russia (Soviet Union), Madagascar (Malagasy), etc. For details, see 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.
GWn: Gleditsch and Ward's numeric country code, from the Gleditsch and Ward list of independent states.
cown: The Correlates of War numeric country code, 2016 version. This differs from Gleditsch and Ward's numeric country code in a few cases. See http://www.correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/state-system-membership for the full list.
in_GW_system: Whether the state is "in system" (that is, is independent and sovereign), according to Gleditsch and Ward, for this particular date. Matches at the end of the year; so, for example South Vietnam 1975 is FALSE because, according to Gleditsch and Ward, the country ended on April 1975 (being absorbed by North Vietnam). It is also TRUE for dates beyond 2012 for countries that did not end by then, depsite the fact that the Gleditsch and Ward list has not been updated since.

Note

The "extended" datasets *_extended are extended back in time using the gwf_duration variable, so they include years before 1946.The original country-year datasets did not include the period before 1946 explicitly.