Autocratic Regime Data: Autocratic Regimes

Data source: Geddes, Wright and Frantz

Description:

When the leader of an autocratic regime loses power, one of three things happens. The incumbent leadership group is replaced by democratically elected leaders. Someone from the incumbent leadership group replaces them, and the regime persists. Or the incumbent leadership group loses control to a different group that replaces it with a new autocracy. The dataset facilitates the investigation of all three kinds of transition. The data identify how regimes exit power, how much violence occurs during transitions, and whether the regimes that precede and succeed them are autocratic. The data identify autocratic regime breakdowns regardless of whether the country democratizes, which makes possible the investigation of why the ouster of dictators sometimes leads to democracy but often does not, and many other questions.

Last updated by source: 2014-06-20

Citation:

    @article{gwf1,
 author = {Barbara Geddes and Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz},
 journal = {Perspectives on Politics},
 number = {2},
 pages = {313--331},
 publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
 title = {Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A new data set},
 volume = {12},
 year = {2014}
}


    

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