Political Events Project, 1948-1965 (ICPSR 5206)
Version Date: Feb 16, 1992 View help for published
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Ivo Feierabend;
Rosalind Feierabend;
Betty Nesvold
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05206.v3
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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.
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Political events involving 84 nations that were independent prior to 1955 in the period 1948-1965.
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(1) DEADLINE DATA ON WORLD AFFAIRS, and (2) ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA YEARBOOK
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1984-05-03
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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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