Global instances of coups from 1950 to 2010: A new dataset
By Jonathan M Powell, C. Thyne. 2009
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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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- Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts (2020, neutral): “…changes in aid disbursements and cross-border capital flows: wars from the Peace Research Institute Oslo Armed Conflict Dataset, coups from Powell and Thyne (2011), natural disasters from the International Disaster Database, financial crises from Laeven and Valencia (2012), and petroleum…”
- Determinants of the Attempting and Outcome of Coups d’état (2012, background): “Dependent Variable Coup attempt follows the definition of Powell and Thyne (2011): ‘‘attempts by the military or other elites within the state apparatus to unseat the sitting head of government using unconstitutional means.’’”
- A dictator’s toolkit (2014, background): “…type come from Geddes, Wright & Frantz (2013), the measures of past leader failures and leader duration come from the ARCHIGOS dataset (Goemans, Gleditsch & Chiozza, 2009), the measure of past coups comes from Powell & Thyne (2011), and the measure of oil rents per capita comes from Ross (2009).”
- Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “Finally, we consider the occurrence of attempted coups (Powell and Thyne 2011).”