Global coups, 1979 to 2010

Data on global coups from 1979 to 2010 from Powell & Thyne

coups

Format

A data frame with 5828 observations of 9 variables:

gwcode

Gleditsch and Ward country codes.

year

Year, in date format.

coup1

succ.coup

Successful coup, 0/1.

democ

Polity democracy score (0-10).

autoc

Polity autocracy score (0-10).

polity

Polity score (democ-autoc).

polity2

Polity score with correction for regime transitions.

regtrans

Regime transitions.

Source

Powell, Jonathan M. and Clayton L. Thyne. ``Global instances of coups from 1950 to 2010: A new dataset.'' Journal of Peace Research Vol. 48 No. 2.

Gleditsch, Kristian S. and Michael D. Ward. 1999. ``Interstate System Membership: A Revised List of the Independent States since 1816." International Interactions 25.

Examples

data(coups)
table(coups$succ.coup)
#> 
#>    0    1 
#> 5755   73