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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

Usage

data(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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