2015 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award winner
Article Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, and Erica Frantz. 2014. “Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A New Data Set.” Perspectives on Politics 12(2): 313-331
Code Book coding rules; narratives of the historical events that constitute autocratic regime failures and starts; list of sources used to code data; comparison with alternative democracy data set
Autocratic regimes start/end dates, regime types, level of violence during regime failure event, categorization of regime failure events
All political regimes typology of autocracies and non-autocracies (including democracies)