Coups d'état, 1950 to Present

 

The purpose of this website is to provide material to accompany:

 

Powell, Jonathan M., and Clayton L. Thyne (2011).Global Instances of Coups from 1950 to 2010: A New Dataset.

Journal of Peace Research 48(2):249-259.

 

Codebook: Includes information for all data on this website (pdf format)

 

Dataset 1: Full “Candidate” dataset with coding decisions (txt format)

-alternatively, paste the following command into Stata:

            insheet using http://www.uky.edu/~clthyn2/coup_data/candidate_dataset.txt

 

Dataset 2: Final (purged & updated) dataset (txt format) 

-alternatively, paste the following command into Stata:

       insheet using http://www.uky.edu/~clthyn2/coup_data/powell_thyne_coups_final.txt, clear

 

Dataset 3: Dataset in ccode/year format (txt format)

-alternatively, paste the following command into Stata:

       insheet using http://www.uky.edu/~clthyn2/coup_data/powell_thyne_ccode_year.txt, clear

 

Appendix Table 1: Coups Distinct from Civil Wars in the Uppsala/PRIO dataset

 

Appendix Table 2: Coups Distinct from Civil Wars in the COW dataset 

 

 

For further information, please consult:

 

Jonathan Powell’s website: http://www.jonathanmpowell.com/index.html

 

Clayton Thyne’s website: http://www.uky.edu/~clthyn2/