Introducing Regular Turnover Details, 1960-2015

A dataset on world leaders' legal removal from office

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ID3917443
AuthorsAmanda A Licht (0000-0001-7417-5944, Department of Political Science, Binghamton University (SUNY), corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume59
Issue2
Pages277-285
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00223433211045854
OpenAlexW3216300295
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited41

The premier data on leader survival focus on the violent, dramatic means by which leaders 'exit' office. This information, vital for many research questions, constitutes a valuable public good for the community. Yet, it provides an incomplete picture of the political rise and fall of world leaders. The burgeoning study of leaders using survival analysis requires a fine-grained understanding of not just when, but why and how leaders lose power. We cannot, for example, conclude that a leader's exit implies a successful application of international pressure if her removal stems from pre-set constitutional laws and the immediate successor has long been considered the heir apparent. The Regular Turnover Details dataset remedies this problem. Two principal variables report information about the manner of each leader's exit and the relationship between outgoing and incoming leaders, allowing analysts to arbitrate between exits that suggest political failure and those that don't, identify non-political leaders (such as interim and technocratic executives), and determine whether leaders constitute heirs to power or challengers thereto

Computer security · Interim · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Principal (computer security) · Public relations · Set (abstract data type) · Successor cardinal · Technocracy · Computer Science · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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