archigos: Archigos: A (Subset of a) Dataset on Political Leaders
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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. Data are version 4.1.
Usage
archigos
Format
A data frame with 3409 observations on the following 11 variables.
gwcodea numeric vector for the Gleditsch-Ward state code
obsida character vector for observation ID
leadidthe unique leader identifier
leaderthe leader name
yrbornthe year the leader was born
gendera categorical variable for leader gender ("M" for men, "W" for women)
startdatea date for the leader start date
enddatea date for the leader end date
entrya character vector for the leader's entry type
exita character vector for the leader's exit type
exitcodea 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.
To best conform with data requirements on CRAN, a few leader names were
renamed if they included irregular characters (e.g. umlauts or accents).
These leaders, in these particular applications, hav been renamed to "(Juan
Orlando) Hernandez" (HON-2014), "(Antonio) Saca Gonzalez" (SAL-2004),
"Julian Trujillo Largacha" (COL-1878), "Cesar Gaviria Trujillo"
(COL-1990), "Gabriel Garcia Moreno" (ECU-1869), "Marcos A. Morinigo"
(PAR-1894-1), "Higinio Morinigo" (PAR-1940), "Sebastian Pinera"
(CHL-2010), "Sauli Niinisto" (FIN-2012), "Louis Gerhard De Geer"
(SWD-1876), "Stefan Lofven" (SWD-2014), "Lars Lokke Rasmussen"
(DEN-2009, DEN-2015), and "Fernando de Araujo" (ETM-2008-1). None of
these names contain these special characters in the data here.
For clarity's sake, I renamed the ccode column in the raw data to be
gwcode. This is because it may deceive the user peeking into the data
that these are not Correlates of War state codes, but Gleditsch-Ward
state codes.
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.
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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. Data are version 4.1.
Usage
archigos
Format
A data frame with 3409 observations on the following 11 variables.
gwcodea numeric vector for the Gleditsch-Ward state code
obsida character vector for observation ID
leadidthe unique leader identifier
leaderthe leader name
yrbornthe year the leader was born
gendera categorical variable for leader gender ("M" for men, "W" for women)
startdatea date for the leader start date
enddatea date for the leader end date
entrya character vector for the leader's entry type
exita character vector for the leader's exit type
exitcodea 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.
To best conform with data requirements on CRAN, a few leader names were
renamed if they included irregular characters (e.g. umlauts or accents).
These leaders, in these particular applications, hav been renamed to "(Juan
Orlando) Hernandez" (HON-2014), "(Antonio) Saca Gonzalez" (SAL-2004),
"Julian Trujillo Largacha" (COL-1878), "Cesar Gaviria Trujillo"
(COL-1990), "Gabriel Garcia Moreno" (ECU-1869), "Marcos A. Morinigo"
(PAR-1894-1), "Higinio Morinigo" (PAR-1940), "Sebastian Pinera"
(CHL-2010), "Sauli Niinisto" (FIN-2012), "Louis Gerhard De Geer"
(SWD-1876), "Stefan Lofven" (SWD-2014), "Lars Lokke Rasmussen"
(DEN-2009, DEN-2015), and "Fernando de Araujo" (ETM-2008-1). None of
these names contain these special characters in the data here.
For clarity's sake, I renamed the ccode column in the raw data to be
gwcode. This is because it may deceive the user peeking into the data
that these are not Correlates of War state codes, but Gleditsch-Ward
state codes.
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.
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