Powell, Jonathan M. and Clayton L. Thyne. 2011. Global Instances of Coups from 1950-Present: A New Dataset. Journal of Peace Research 48(2): 249-259.
Codebook, Appendices, & Replication Data.
Attempted Coups in the World, 1950-2010
Resources Related to Coups (in progress)
Recent Events
Bibliography
Data
Powell and Thyne (2011) - PDF Codebook
- The ccode/year version has all countries and years for the sample (currently 1950-2010, updated monthly) and will probably be of the most use to quantitative analyses. It can also be accessed through Stata with the following command:
insheet using http://www.uky.edu/~clthyn2/coup_data/powell_thyne_ccode_year.txt, clear
Center For Systemic Peace - Excel Datafile - PDF Codebook
- This is an excellent resource for coup studies. The datafile itself offers information including the coup plotter and deaths related to the coup, while the codebook offers brief narratives regarding events that are excluded.
