Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Online appendices
- 1 Leaders
- 2 Why and when do leaders fight?
- 3 International conflict and the fate of leaders
- 4 The fate of leaders and incentives to fight
- 5 Case studies: Central America 1840???1918
- 6 Conclusions
- Appendix A Data and measurement
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix A - Data and measurement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Online appendices
- 1 Leaders
- 2 Why and when do leaders fight?
- 3 International conflict and the fate of leaders
- 4 The fate of leaders and incentives to fight
- 5 Case studies: Central America 1840???1918
- 6 Conclusions
- Appendix A Data and measurement
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
: a data set of leaders
A major reason for the relative paucity of research on leaders and international conflict was the lack of systematic data on leaders. Specifically for this book – but of much broader potential use – in collaboration with Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (University of Essex and CSCW, PRIO) we collected a new data set on leaders, entitled Archigos. Archigos ??? the Greek word for ruler ??? is a database of political leaders, specifically the effective leader of each independent state (Gleditsch and Ward, 1999) between 1875 and 2004. Initially intended as a significant extension of the temporal domain of data we compiled early on in this project (Chiozza and Goemans, 2004b), Archigos is a comprehensive revision of the earlier data with many corrections and additions. Principal sources include Lentz (1994, 1999), Keesing's, www.rulers.org and www.worldstatesman.org, and in particular for the pre-1900 leaders, Proquest Historical Newspapers (www.umi.com/proquest). Archigos is continuously updated; here we rely on Version 2.8.
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- Leaders and International Conflict , pp. 205 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011