Replication Data for: Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: Rethinking Institutional Strength (doi:10.7910/DVN/7H6XQO)

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Replication Data for: Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: Rethinking Institutional Strength

doi:10.7910/DVN/7H6XQO

Harvard Dataverse

2019-06-18

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Meng, Anne, 2019, "Replication Data for: Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: Rethinking Institutional Strength", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7H6XQO, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:eOyuf9qFQd0UTNycoFVy4Q== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: Rethinking Institutional Strength

doi:10.7910/DVN/7H6XQO

Meng, Anne (University of Virginia)

Harvard Dataverse

Meng, Anne

Meng, Anne

2019-01-19

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7H6XQO

Social Sciences

A key finding in the literature on authoritarian regimes is that leaders frequently rely on ruling parties to stay in power, but we lack systematic ways to measure autocratic party strength. As a result, it is not clear how often ruling parties are actually strong and capable of carrying out important functions. This article demonstrates that strong ruling parties are much rarer than typically assumed. Using a global sample of dictatorships from 1946-2008, I show that most ruling parties are unable to survive the death or departure of the founding leader. This is true even of many parties that have been coded as part of single-party regimes. While strong parties may be key to durable authoritarianism, relatively few parties are actually strong.

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• country
• gwf_casename
• strong
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• mean_growth
• mean_ongoingwar
• mean_onset
• mean_coups
• mean_polity
• ccode
• country
• lpname
• yrs_founder
• number_leaders
• startyear
• endyear
• yrsinpower
• ccode
• country
• lpname
• yrs_founder
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• yrsinpower
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• ccode
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• gwf_casename
• gwf_regimetype
• lpname
• yrs_founder
• number_leaders
• startyear
• endyear
• yrsinpower

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Summary Statistics: Valid 65.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 13.0; Max. 71.0; StDev 18.059796510481508;

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Summary Statistics: Mean 2.2923076923076913; Min. 1.0; Valid 65.0; Max. 14.0; StDev 2.2688314511761676;

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Summary Statistics: Valid 43.0; StDev 202.43732196527887; Mean 499.1860465116279; Min. 70.0; Max. 830.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 2008.0; StDev 15.889081201870846; Min. 1950.0; Mean 1990.6744186046512; Valid 43.0

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Summary Statistics: Valid 41.0; StDev 2.5056034763082136; Min. 1.0; Mean 2.8536585365853657; Max. 14.0;

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Summary Statistics: Mean 1961.1627906976744; Min. 1922.0; Max. 1994.0; Valid 43.0; StDev 15.97159715983664

Variable Format: numeric

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f3346395 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 1959.0; Valid 33.0; Max. 2018.0; StDev 14.677853860132071; Mean 1989.2424242424242

Variable Format: numeric

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f3346395 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 71.0; Mean 34.76744186046512; Min. 3.0; StDev 19.102277612022537; Valid 43.0;

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