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In xmarquez/PoliticalDatasets: Loads cleaned up versions of political data and offers a range of utility functions to fix them up

#' Boix-Miller-Rosato dichotomous coding of democracy, 1800-2010, version 2.0
#'
#' A dataset containing the Boix-Miller-Rosato dichotomous coding of democracy,
#' used in the paper "A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800-2007"
#' \url{https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/BMR-PolRegimes.pdf?attredirects=0}.
#' The complete codebook is available here:
#' \url{https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/data}.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 17632 rows and 17 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{country}{The country name}
#'   \item{ccode}{COW code}
#'   \item{abbreviation}{World Bank 3-letter code}
#'   \item{year}{Year}
#'   \item{democracy}{Dichotomous democracy measure}
#'   \item{sovereign}{Dichotomous indicator of sovereignty/independence (if 0, democracy is NA)}
#'   \item{democracy_trans}{-1 if democratic breakdown, 0 if no change, 1 if democratic transition}
#'   \item{democracy_breakdowns}{Previous number of democratic breakdowns}
#'   \item{democracy_duration}{Consecutive years of current regime type}
#'   \item{democracy_omitteddata}{This is the same measure as democracy, except
#'   it records an NA for countries occupied during an international war (e.g.,
#'   the Netherlands 1940-44) or experiencing state collapse during a civil war
#'   (e.g., Lebanon 1976-89). The democracy variable instead fills in these
#'   years as continuations of the same regime type.}
#' }
#' @source \url{https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/data}
"bmr"