africa: miltary coups and politics in sub-Saharan Africa

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miltary coups and politics in sub-Saharan Africa

Description

Data is a subset of a larger study on factors affecting regime stability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Format

A data frame with 47 observations on the following 9 variables.

miltcoup

number of successful military coups from independence to 1989

oligarchy

number years country ruled by military oligarchy from independence to 1989

pollib

Political liberalization - 0 = no civil rights for political expression, 1 = limited civil rights for expression but right to form political parties, 2 = full civil rights

parties

Number of legal political parties in 1993

pctvote

Percent voting in last election

popn

Population in millions in 1989

size

Area in 1000 square km

numelec

Total number of legislative and presidential elections

numregim

Number of regime types

Source

Bratton, Michael, and Nicholas Van De Walle. 1997. “Political Regimes and Regime Transitions in Africa, 1910-1994.” Study Number I06996. Ann Arbor: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

References

"Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach" by Jeff Gill 2002.

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