The Correlates of War Data On War: an Update To 1997

Sarkees, Meredith Reid; Schafer, Phil

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“…This is a dummy variable that takes on the value of 1 whenever a leader is in office during a civil war and 0 otherwise. Data are taken from the latest version of the COW Intra-State War data set from Sarkees (2000) for the years until 1997. For 1998 and 1999, civil war data are taken from Fearon and Laitin (2003).…”

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International Conflict and the Tenure of Leaders: Is War Still "Ex Post" Inefficient?

Chiozza¹,

Goemans²

2004

American Journal of Political Science

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Recent work in comparative politics and international relations has shown a marked shift toward leaders as the theoretical unit of analysis. In most of the new theoretical models a core assumption is that leadersW hen testing theories, researchers would like the theoretical and empirical units of analysis to match. In international relations, however, this is often not the case. On the one hand, neo-realists and others who focus on the system as their unit of analysis as well as scholars who base their theories on the unitary rational actor assumption usually rely on the statements and memoirs of leaders in their empirical research (Copeland 2000). Whereas their theoretical unit of analysis is the system or the state as a unitary rational actor, their empirical unit of analysis is the leader. On the other hand, scholars of diversionary war and, recently, the democratic peace employ leaders as their theoretical unit of analysis. In their statistical research, however, these scholars tend to rely on the country or country-year as the empirical unit of analysis (Gelpi 1997;Leeds and Davis 1997;Reiter and Stam 2002). Such mismatches between the theoretical and empirical unit of analysis can significantly weaken empirical tests and produce faulty inferences. A fundamental hurdle for scholars who focus on leaders as their theoretical unit of analysis has been the lack of appropriate data on leaders. Earlier drafts of this article were presented at the PIPES seminar at the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, and the Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C. We thank the commentators at those presentations; in particular we thank Thomas Blackwell, Chris Gelpi, Jessica Hardesty, Bob Keohane, Craig Koerner, Jeff Legro, Thomas Lumley, Kevin Morrison, Davide Raggi, Dan Reiter, Sebastian Rosato, Angelo Secchi, Randolph Siverson, Alastair Smith, David Soskice, Allan Stam, and Terry Therneau. Mistakes, omissions, and other assorted infelicities are our own responsibility. Authors' names are in alphabetical order. theories on the appropriate empirical unit of analysis and to promote further theoretical work on the role of leaders in international and comparative politics, we introduce a new data set of all leaders between 1919 and 1999.Recent work in international relations and comparative politics attempts to build powerful new theories on a solid methodologically individualist basis by focusing on the incentives and constraints of leaders (Bueno de Mesquita et al. 2003;Cheibub and Przeworksi 1999). A central assumption in much of this new research is that leaders act to stay in power (Downs 1957). Very little is empirically known, however, about the factors that affect the tenure of leaders (Bienen and van de Walle 1991;Bueno de Mesquita et al. 2001). To provide some baseline, this article analyzes the new data to assess how a broad range of domestic and international factors affect the tenure of leaders.To promote further theoretical and empirical research on the role of ...

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International Conflict and the Tenure of Leaders: Is War Still "Ex Post" Inefficient?

Chiozza¹,

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2004

American Journal of Political Science

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“…COW contains data at the state level pertaining to the existence of states, conflicts, wars, international treaties, and a number of variables characterizing economic development, military, conflict, trade, and others (Tir et al, 1998, Sarkees andSchafer, 2000). In terms of the spatio-temporal data model, COW combines time slices and events.…”

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Spatio-Temporal Data Model for Integrating Evolving Nation-Level Datasets

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Stewart

2017

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Ability to easily combine the data from diverse sources in a single analytical workflow is one of the greatest promises of the Big Data technologies. However, such integration is often challenging as datasets originate from different vendors, governments, and research communities that results in multiple incompatibilities including data representations, formats, and semantics. Semantics differences are hardest to handle: different communities often use different attribute definitions and associate the records with different sets of evolving geographic entities. Analysis of global socioeconomic variables across multiple datasets over prolonged time is often complicated by the difference in how boundaries and histories of countries or other geographic entities are represented. Here we propose an event-based data model for depicting and tracking histories of evolving geographic units (countries, provinces, etc.) and their representations in disparate data. The model addresses the semantic challenge of preserving identity of geographic entities over time by defining criteria for the entity existence, a set of events that may affect its existence, and rules for mapping between different representations (datasets). Proposed model is used for maintaining an evolving compound database of global socioeconomic and environmental data harvested from multiple sources. Practical implementation of our model is demonstrated using PostgreSQL object-relational database with the use of temporal, geospatial, and NoSQL database extensions.

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“…[29]. In contrast, Pakistani battlefield deaths over four wars (1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999) are fewer than 9000-a full order of magnitude less than those killed in internal security events [30].…”

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Explaining Support for Sectarian Terrorism in Pakistan: Piety, Maslak and Sharia

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2015

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Abstract:In the discourse around sectarian violence in Pakistan, two concerns are prominent. The first is the contention that piety, or the intensity of Muslim religious practice, predicts support for sectarian and other forms of Islamist violence. The second is the belief that personal preferences for some forms of sharia also explain such support. As I describe herein, scholars first articulated these concerns in the "clash of civilizations" thesis. Subsequent researchers developed them further in the scholarly and policy analytical literatures that explored these linkages through qualitative and quantitative methodologies. I revisit these claims in the particular context of sectarian violence in Pakistan. To do so, I use several questions included in a recent and large national survey of Pakistanis to create indices of both piety and support for three dimensions of sharia. I use these indices as explanatory variables, along with other explanatory and control variables, in a regression analysis of support for sectarian violence, the dependent variable. I find that the piety index and dimensions of sharia support are significant only when district fixed effects are excluded; however, personal characteristics (i.e., the particular school of Islam respondents espouse, ethnicity, several demographics) most consistently predict support for sectarian violence.

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The Correlates of War Data On War: an Update To 1997

Cited by 368 publications

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International Conflict and the Tenure of Leaders: Is War Still "Ex Post" Inefficient?

International Conflict and the Tenure of Leaders: Is War Still "Ex Post" Inefficient?

Spatio-Temporal Data Model for Integrating Evolving Nation-Level Datasets

Explaining Support for Sectarian Terrorism in Pakistan: Piety, Maslak and Sharia

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