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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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