Political Events Project, 1948-1965 (ICPSR 5206)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Ivo Feierabend; Rosalind Feierabend; Betty Nesvold

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05206.v3

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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.

Citation

Feierabend, Ivo, Feierabend, Rosalind, and Nesvold, Betty. Political Events Project, 1948-1965. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05206.v3

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Funding

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

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Geographic Coverage

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

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1948 -- 1965
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Universe

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

Data Source

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

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • 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. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05206.v3

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

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