fra_leaderyears: French Leader-Years, 1874-2015

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French Leader-Years, 1874-2015

Description

These are data generated in peacesciencer for all French leader-years from 1874 to 2015. I'm going to use these data for stress-testing the calculation of so-called "peace spells" for data that are decidedly imbalanced, as these are.

Usage

fra_leaderyears

Format

A data frame with 255 observations on the following 10 variables.

obsid

the unique observation ID in the Archigos data

ccode

the Correlates of War state code for France (220)

leader

a name—typically last name—for the leader

year

an observation year for the leader

startdate

the start date for the leader's period in office

enddate

the end date for the leader's period in office

gmlmidongoing

was there an ongoing inter-state dispute for the leader?

gmlmidonset

was there a new inter-state dispute onset for the leader?

gmlmidongoing_init

was there an ongoing inter-state dispute for the leader that the leader initiated?

gmlmidonset_init

was there a new inter-state dispute onset for the leader that the leader initiated?

Details

Data are generated in the development version (scheduled release of v. 0.7) of peacesciencer. Conflict data come from the GML MID data (v. 2.2.1). Leader data come from Archigos (v. 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.

Gibler, Douglas M., Steven V. Miller, and Erin K. Little. 2016. “An Analysis of the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Dataset, 1816-2001.” International Studies Quarterly 60(4): 719-730.

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