Autocratic Regime Data: All Political Regimes

Data source: Geddes, Wright and Frantz

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Description:

Data to identify and analyze autocracy-to-autocracy transitions. Version 1.2.

When the leader of an autocratic regime loses power, one of three things happens: 1. The incumbent leadership group is replaced by democratically elected leaders. 2. Someone from the incumbent leadership group replaces him, and the regime persists. 3. the incumbent leadership group loses control to a different group, replacing it with a new autocracy. Much scholarship exists on the first kind of transition, but little on transitions from one autocracy to another, though they make up about half of all regime changes.

This dataset facilitates the investigation of all three kinds of transition. It provides transition information for the 280 autocratic regimes in existence from 1946 to 2010. The data identify how regimes exit power, how much violence occurs during transitions, and whether the regimes that precede and succeed them are autocratic.

Last updated by source: 2014-06-20

Dataset type: Time-Series
Dataset level: Country

Citation:

When using this dataset, please cite as:
• Geddes, B., Wright, J., & Frantz, E. (2014). Autocratic breakdown and regime transitions: A new data set. Perspectives on Politics, 12(2), 313–331.



Variables in this dataset:

   Non-Autocracy
QoG Code: wr_nonautocracy

Variable on what substituted the autocracy. Classes are: 1. Democracy 2. Foreign-Occupied 3. Not-Independent 4. Provisional 5. Warlord 6. Warlord/Foreign-occupied

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   Regime Type
QoG Code: wr_regtype

Variable on regime type. Classes are: 1. Indirect military 2. Military 3. Military-Personal 4. Monarchy 5. Oligarchy 6. Party 7. Party-Military 8. Party-Military-Personal 9. Party-Personal 10. Personal

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