create_leaderdays: Create leader-days from leader data

In svmiller/peacesciencer: Tools and Data for Quantitative Peace Science Research

Create leader-days from leader data

Description

create_leaderdays() allows you to generate leader-day data from leader-level data provided in peacesciencer.

Usage

create_leaderdays(system = "archigos", standardize = "none")

Arguments

system

a leader system with which to create leader-days. Right now, only "archigos" is supported.

standardize

a character vector of length one: "cow", "gw", or "none". If "cow", the function standardizes the leader-days to just those that overlap with state system membership in the Correlates of War state system (see: cow_states). If "gw", the function standardizes the leader-days to just those that overlap with the state system dates of the Gleditsch-Ward date (see: gw_states). If "none", the function returns all leader-days as presented in Archigos (which is nominally denominated in Gleditsch-Ward state system codes, if not necessarily Gleditsch-Ward state system dates). Default is "none".

Details

create_leaderdays(), as of writing, only supports the Archigos data set of leaders. I envision this function being mostly for internal uses. Basically, create_leaderyears() effectively starts by first running a version of create_leaderdays(). So, why not have this function too?

The Archigos data are anchored in the Gleditsch-Ward system of states, which now includes (in this package by way of isard) the microstates. However, the Archigos data do not include information for the leaders of microstates.

Value

create_leaderdays() takes leader-level data available in peacesciencer and returns a leader-day-level data frame.

Author(s)

Steven V. Miller

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.

Examples

create_leaderdays()

create_leaderdays(standardize = "gw")

svmiller/peacesciencer documentation built on July 16, 2025, 7:01 p.m.