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/