Data

Here you can find some data sets from my research. Some are replication files, others are larger data sets.  Much of this is repeated from the Research page, but it was getting lost among the article titles. Please cite the corresponding piece when using the data. 

Insurgent Terrorism book replication data. Civilian targeting by rebel groups. Also outcomes like attacks on schools, journalists, and the general public.

This is the Big, Allied, and Dangerous II (BAAD2) Insurgency data with additional variables on the rebel groups as well as state-level variables. Dataset covers 140 rebel groups, 1998-2012. Stata dataset is here.  Do-file to replicate regression tables is here.

The citation for the data is:

Asal, Victor, Brian J. Phillips, and R. Karl Rethemeyer. 2022. Insurgent Terrorism: Intergroup Relationships and the Killing of Civilians. Oxford University Press.

ViNSAR: Violent Non-State Actor Rivalry  data

Data on rivalries among terrorists, insurgents, and pro-government militias in Africa and Asia. The replication data for the JCR article is here.  The full data, with 17,797 rows of dyad-year information on rivals, is at the Harvard Dataverse here.

The citation for the data is:

Conrad, Justin, Kevin T. Greene, and Brian J. Phillips. 2023 "Introducing ViNSAR: Dyadic Data on Violent Non-state Actor Rivalry." Journal of Conflict Resolution (2023): Published ahead of print. Open access paper here.

Data on criminal groups per state in Mexico, 2000-2018

Click here to download data on the number of criminal groups per Mexican state, 2000-2018. For information on the data, see this paper, and/or the 2015 paper below. The citation for the data is: 

Garriga, Ana Carolina, and Brian J. Phillips. 2023 "Organized crime and foreign direct investment: Evidence from criminal groups in Mexico." Journal of Conflict Resolution 67 (9): 1675-1703. Open access paper here.

Older versions of the data:

2015. "How Does Leadership Decapitation Affect Violence? The Case of Drug Trafficking Organizations in Mexico." Journal of Politics 77 (2): 324-336. Paper. Stata replication data and do-file.

***Additional data used to create the Stata file above for the reported models: State-year data on geographic territory of drug-trafficking organizations 2006-2012, data on DTO leaders killed or arrested 2006-2012, data on "disputed territory" or locations of inter-group disputes, and documentation describing these files. 

Data on thousands of terrorism articles and authors

Forthcoming. "How Did 9/11 Affect Terrorism Research? Examining Articles and Authors, 1970-2019." Terrorism and Political Violence. Open access paper here. Stata replication data and do-file.

***Additional data used to create the above replication material: Data on the 6,880 articles used, with information about each article including abstract, title, authors, and self-coded discipline of journal, Stata and CSV. Data on the 1,723 authors, with information including gender, PhD status, MD status, discipline, institution, country, years active, and year of death if relevant. Stata and CSV.  Here is some documentation to describe the files. 

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