miltary coups and politics in sub-Saharan Africa
Data is a subset of a larger study on factors affecting regime stability in Sub-Saharan Africa
data(africa)
A data frame with 47 observations on the following 9 variables.
number of successful military coups from independence to 1989
number years country ruled by military oligarchy from independence to 1989
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
Number of legal political parties in 1993
Percent voting in last election
Population in millions in 1989
Area in 1000 square km
Total number of legislative and presidential elections
Number of regime types
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.
"Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach" by Jeff Gill 2002.
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