Coups and their Leaders: A New Comprehensive Dataset

• In Event: JSS 12
  In JSS Session: Political Violence

Brief Overview

Drawing on self-collected data on the identity and rank of all leaders of coups d’état from 1950 to 2018, we find that previous and successive regime types, democracy levels, as well as regime stability differ across coup leaders’ identities.

Authors

• Tanja Eschenauer-Engler, Heidelberg University

• Bastian Benedikt Herre, University of Chicago