Description & Citation--Study No. 5206

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

05206

Title:

Political Events Project, 1948-1965

Principal Investigator(s):

Feierabend, Ivo

Feierabend, Rosalind

Nesvold, Betty

Funding:

United States Department of the Navy. Office of Naval Research (N00014-67-A-0181-0026)

Bibliographic Citation:

Feierabend, Ivo, Rosalind Feierabend, and Betty Nesvold. Political Events Project, 1948-1965. ICPSR05206-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05206.v3

Scope of Study

Summary:

This study contains data on 6,754 political instability events in 84 selected nations in the period 1948-1965. These data, which permit measurement of political instability and the correlates of internal conflict behavior, are concerned with conflict directed by groups and individuals in the prevailing political system against other groups or persons, and with uncovering the determinants of stability within all national political systems. The variables in the dataset are divided into four basic types: variables that identify events, classify events, describe events, and evaluate events. The study provides a conflict intensity rating for each event. Political instability events are classified from low to high and include institutionally prescribed elections, the fall of cabinets, martial laws, assassinations of significant group leaders, mass arrests, coup d'etats, and civil wars.

Subject Terms:

assassinations, civil disorders, civil wars, coup d'etat, internal political conflict, martial law, political opposition, political violence

Geographic Coverage:

Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China (Peoples Republic), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Global, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea (South), Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Time Period:
  • 1948--1965

Universe:

Political events involving 84 nations that were independent prior to 1955 in the period 1948-1965.

Data Types:

event/transaction data

Methodology

Data Source:

(1) DEADLINE DATA ON WORLD AFFAIRS, and (2) ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA YEARBOOK

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1984-05-03

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