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Behavioral Correlates Of War
(BCOW)
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| Use: |
The
website describes the dataset as follows:
The behavior of various states involved in 45
interstate crises over the past 164 years is the focus of this data
collection. More specifically, these data follow the attempts of
these states to influence others and the responses generated over
the course of the crises. The sample reflects a broad historical
range of crises and includes those that involve war as well as those
that do not. Each data file contains information on a crisis or set
of crises. Within each data file the cases represent actions taken
during the crisis period. The data allow for a micro level of
analysis with measures that distinguish a wide range of cooperative
and conflictive interstate actions. In addition, measures are
included that are sensitive to the mix of different behaviors and
that record the tempo of the action within given time intervals.
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| URL: |
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/icp08606.html |
| Code Book: |
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/Data/gencode.pdf |
| Citation: |
Leng, Russell J. BEHAVIORAL
CORRELATES OF WAR, 1816-1979 [Computer file]. 3rd release.
Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College [producer], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI:
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
[distributor], 1995. |
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The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
(CSES)
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The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems database includes datasets
"focusing on three general themes: The impact of electoral institutions on citizens'
political cognition and behavior (parliamentary versus presidential systems of government,
the electoral rules that govern the casting and counting of ballots; and political parties);
the nature of political and social cleavages and alignments; and the evaluation of democratic
institution and processes." Thirty-nine country-elections are included in Module 1, and eight
in module 2.
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| URL: |
http://www.umich.edu/~cses/ |
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Correlates Of War
(COW)
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| Use: |
The COW Project maintains a
series of datasets designed for international relations. |
| URL: |
http://www.umich.edu/~cowproj/dataset.html |
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Correlates Of War 2
(COW2)
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| Use: |
The COW
2 Project maintains a
series of datasets designed for international relations. |
| Home URL: |
http://cow2.la.psu.edu/ |
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First Use of Force
(FUF)
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The FUF project was created to determine which country or countries in
the militarized interstate disputes were the first to use force in the
dispute. Until this point, conflicts only coded for the existence of
force in a dyad. This dataset codes the direction of that
force.
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| Home
URL:
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http://web.utk.edu/~gsops/FUF/ |
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Freedom House
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Provides freedom scores for
all states from 1972 until current. Freedom scores are divided
into both political rights and civil liberties. This dataset has
been used as a measure of regime liberalism and democracy. |
| Home URL: |
http://www.freedomhouse.org/ |
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International Crisis Behavior
(ICB)
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| Description: |
This dataset contains the 434 conflicts between 1947
and 2002. |
| Home URL: |
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/icb/ |
| Data URL: |
http://www.icbnet.org/Data/index.html |
| Code Book: |
http://www.icbnet.org/Data/index.html |
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Issue Correlates Of War
(ICOW)
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| Use: |
The COW Project maintains a
series of datasets designed for international relations.
Variables include territorial claims, maritime claims, and
multilateral treaties. |
| Home URL: |
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/icowdata.html |
| Data URL: |
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/icowdata.html |
| Code Book: |
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/Data/gencode.pdf |
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Conflict-Simulation-Model
(Kosimo)
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| Use: |
The KOSIMO dataset finds itself on the Heidelberger
Institut für Internationale Konfliktforschung (Heidelberg Institute
for International Conflict) servers. KOSIMO is the name of a
database containing 693 political conflicts from 1945 to 1999. Each
conflict is coded with 28 variables. |
| Home URL: |
http://www.hiik.de/en/kosimo/kosimo.htm |
| Manual URL: |
http://www.hiik.de/en/manual.htm |
| Data URL: |
http://www.hiik.de/en/kosimo/kosimo_download.htm |
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Minorities at Risk
(MAR)
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| Use: |
Minorities at Risk are
those minorities who are singled out by the majority in the
state. To merge these datasets with your own datasets, create
a unique key (often country code-year works) and use your statistics
program's merge function. |
| Project URL: |
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/ |
| Program
URL: |
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data.asp |
| Code Book: |
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/margene/MAR-codebook_040903.doc
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/margene/MAR-codebook_040903.pdf |
| Citation: |
Bennett, D. Scott, and Christian Davenport. 2003.
MARGene v1.0. Software. Website: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/margene.htm. |
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Militarized Interstate Disputes
(MID)
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These
two datasets provide data on all disputes in which force was at
least threatened. The first version (2.10) deals with the
years 1816 until 1992, whereas the second version (v3.06) extends
the dataset until 2002. |
| URL
(v2.10): |
http://pss.la.psu.edu/MID_DATA.HTM |
| URL
(v3.06) |
http://cow2.la.psu.edu/COW2
Data/MIDs/MID302.html |
| Code Book: |
Daniel
M. Jones, Stuart A. Bremer and J. David Singer (1996)
."Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1992: Rationale, Coding
Rules, and Empirical Patterns." Conflict
Management and Peace Science, 15(2): 163:213. |
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Penn World Tables
(PWT)
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| Use: |
The
Penn World Tables provide necessary economic information about the
states. The dataset lacks in both scope (not all states are
measured) and length (the temporal length is brief:
1950-2000). |
| URL: |
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/ |
| Code Book: |
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/Documentation/index.htm |
| Citation: |
Alan Heston, Robert Summers
and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 6.1, Center for
International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania (CICUP),
October 2002. |
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Personal Integrity Rights
(PIR)
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| Use: |
These datasets were used in
two studies by Steven C. Poe and C.
Neal Tate who investigate the violations of human rights to personal
integrity in the 1980s. This site holds the datasets for both
their 1994 and their 1999 investigations. |
| Home URL: |
http://www.psci.unt.edu/ihrsc/poetate.htm |
| Variable List: |
ftp://ftp.unt.edu/pub/psci/repression/variable.lis |
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Polity IV
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| Version: |
This site holds p4v2002, but previous
versions are also available. For previous versions, search the ICPSR
site for 'polity'. |
| Use: |
The Polity datasets chiefly
code states as to their level of democracy and autocracy. In the
literature, states coded 5 and above on the POLITY scale are
considered democracies, while those coded -5 and below are coded
autocracies.
Previous versions of the Polity datasets included
variables such as CENT (degree of centralization in the government),
SCOPE (extent of government power in domestic affairs), and MONO
(measure of the degree of monocratism in the executive). All
Polity datasets (except for the original) are in country-year format.
The original Polity dataset is in regime format and
includes a variable (ANOC) that measures the degree of anocracy in the
country. |
| Home URL: |
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/polity/ |
| Variable
List: |
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/polity/ |
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SHERFACS
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| Use: |
This dataset contains almost 1700 cold-war conflicts,
disputes, and quarrels. As opposed to most datasets on this
page, this dataset is in MS Access form, which allows you to merge the
parts of the dataset that you want. |
| Home URL: |
http://www.usc.edu/dept/ancntr/Paris-in-LA/Database/sherfacs.html |
| Data URL: |
http://www.usc.edu/dept/ancntr/Paris-in-LA/Database/Sherfacs/sherfacs-last.mdb
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| Code Book: |
http://www.usc.edu/dept/ancntr/Paris-in-LA/Database/Sherfacs/CODEBOOK.txt |
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