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archigos: Archigos: A (Subset of a) Dataset on Political Leaders

Description

These are leader-level data drawn from the Archigos data. Space considerations mean I offer here just a few columns based on these data.

Usage

archigos

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 3409 observations on the following seven variables.

ccode

a numeric vector for the Correlates of War state code

leadid

the unique leader identifier

startdate

a date for the leader start date

enddate

a date for the leader end date

entry

a character vector for the leader's entry type

exit

a character vector for the leader's exit type

exitcode

a character vector for more information about the leader's exit type

Details

Space considerations mean I can only offer a few columns from the overall data. Archigos data are rich with information. Consult the raw data available on Hein Goeman's website for more. Data are version 4.1.

References

Goemans, Henk E., Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Giacomo Chiozza. 2009. "Introducing Archigos: A Dataset of Political Leaders" Journal of Peace Research 46(2): 269--83.