Autocratic Regime Data Set

This is a collaborative project with Barbara Geddes and Joseph Wright to gather data on dictatorships, supported by the National Science Foundation. It includes data on regime start/failure dates, failure event variables, and regime type for over 200 autocratic regimes in 122 countries from 1946 to 2010.

The Autocratic Regime Data Set can be found at: http://sites.psu.edu/dictators/. It is the winner of the 2015 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award.

How Dictatorships Work data

Data used in the book, How Dictatorships Work (with Barbara Geddes and Joseph Wright), can be found at: http://sites.psu.edu/dictators/how-dictatorships-work/. These data build on the Autocratic Regime Data Set to include time-varying characteristics of autocratic regimes. Our measure of personalism can be found at this site as well.