Global coups, 1979 to 2010 — coups • spduration

Data on global coups from 1979 to 2010 from Powell & Thyne

Usage

coups

Format

A data frame with 5828 observations of 9 variables:

gwcode: Gleditsch and Ward country codes.
year: Year, in date format.
coup1
succ.coup: Successful coup, 0/1.
democ: Polity democracy score (0-10).
autoc: Polity autocracy score (0-10).
polity: Polity score (democ-autoc).
polity2: Polity score with correction for regime transitions.
regtrans: Regime transitions.

Source

Powell, Jonathan M. and Clayton L. Thyne. “Global instances of coups from 1950 to 2010: A new dataset.” Journal of Peace Research Vol. 48 No. 2.

Gleditsch, Kristian S. and Michael D. Ward. 1999. “Interstate System Membership: A Revised List of the Independent States since 1816." International Interactions 25.

Examples

data(coups)
table(coups$succ.coup)
#> 
#>    0    1 
#> 5755   73