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Replication Data for "Counterbalancing, Spatial Dependence, and Peer-Group Effects" (Forthcoming in Political Science Research and Methods)

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Title Replication Data for "Counterbalancing, Spatial Dependence, and Peer-Group Effects" (Forthcoming in Political Science Research and Methods)
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CPF2GY
 
Creator Böhmelt, Tobias
Ruggeri, Andrea
Pilster, Ulrich
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Previous studies identified several domestic factors that may influence a country’s level of structural coup-proofing, i.e., counterbalancing strategies that shall prevent internal groups from seizing power via a coup d’état. We suggest that a country’s level of counterbalancing is also affected by such policies in what we term countries’ “peer groups.” When deciding the appropriate level of counterbalancing, rulers may be affected by external information flows from a “peer group” with similar structural coup-risk characteristics (institutions) or a similar coup-risk experience (coup history). Using maximum-likelihood spatial-lag models and data in 1976-2005, we find that leaders learn from and emulate counterbalancing in other states, but rather only through an “experiential peer group.”
 
Subject Social Sciences
counterbalancing
coup-proofing
spatial dependence
peer groups
 
Contributor Böhmelt, Tobias