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Description & Citation
Description & Citation--Study No. 9263 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 9263 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09263 |
| Title: | Polity II: Political Structures and Regime Change, 1800-1986 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Ted Robert Gurr |
| Funding Agency: | National Science Foundation. |
| Grant Number: | SES-8610567 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Gurr, Ted R. POLITY II: POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND REGIME CHANGE, 1800-1986 [Computer file]. Boulder, CO: Center for Comparative Politics [producer], 1989. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | Carried out under the auspices of the Data Development for International Research (DDIR) project, POLITY II was designed to develop longitudinal indicators of political structures and regime change. This file encompasses most member states of the international system from 1800 to 1986, and consists of annual codings of regimes' structural characteristics, institutional changes, and the directionality of changes on underlying dimensions of democracy, autocracy, and power concentration. |
| Subject Term(s): | military regimes, political change, political systems |
| Geographic Coverage: | Global |
| Time Period: | 1800 - 1986 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1986 - 1989 |
| Universe: | Annual observations from 1800 to 1986 of 20 historical countries and 132 contemporary countries encompassing virtually all independent countries with populations of one million or more in the 1980s. |
| Data Type: | aggregate data |
| Data Collection Notes: | This collection succeeds an earlier study by the principal investigator and Erica Gurr titled POLITY DATA: PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE IN POLITICAL SYSTEMS, 1800-1971 (ICPSR 5010). Each case represents a country-year observation. The data contain blanks and other nonnumeric codes. |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | Political characteristics were derived from a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources, including Banks, Arthur S. CROSS-NATIONAL TIME-SERIES DATA FILE. Binghamton, New York: Center for Comparative Political Research, State University of New York, 1986. Fiscal data were culled from the following sources: (1) Mitchell, B.R. EUROPEAN HISTORICAL STATISTICS, 1750-1970. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. (2) Mitchell, B.R. INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL STATISTICS: AFRICA AND ASIA. New York: New York University Press, 1982. (3) Mitchell, B.R. INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL STATISTICS: THE AMERICAS AND AUSTRALASIA. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1983. (4) THE EUROPA YEARBOOK: A WORLD SURVEY. London: Europa Publications Limited, annual (1969-1988). |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Restrictions: | Copies of pre-publication papers using the POLITY II dataset should be sent to the authors of the related publication cited below. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1990-03-02 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 1992-02-17. |
| 2006-01-18 - File CB9263.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
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