REIGN Dataset

May 2019 REIGN Dataset: May 1st, 2019

New Leaders

• Assoumani (Comoros)
• Changing of the Captains Regents (San Marino)
• Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf (Sudan)
• Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan (Sudan)
• Manasseh Sogavare (Solomon Islands)
• Abdelkader Bensalah (Algeria)

Key Elections

• Andorra
• Finland
• Indonesia
• Solomon Islands
• Ukraine
• Israel
• Egypt (Referendum)
• Spain

Version Updates (As of May 1st, 2019)

• Fixed election outcome information for Estonia 2019 as coalition outcome was previously unclear.
• Preliminary outcome data is coded for Andorra, Finland, and Indonesia. These may change.
• Changed regime type for Sudan to military provisional.
• Changed regime type for Algeria to civilian provisional.
• Changed regime type for Egypt to military personalist.
• Updated precipitation (SPI) estimates using NOAA’s March 2019 PREC/L release (https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.precl.html).
• Updated GDP and population data using the April 2019 IMF world economic outlook release (https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2019/01/weodata/index.aspx).
• Updated GDP using the newest World Bank release (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ny.gdp.mktp.cd).
• Updated infant mortality rate data with newest World Bank release (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sp.dyn.imrt.in). Implemented country-specific ARIMA modeling for forecasting mortality rate for unreleased years. These numbers were previously produced using forward filling for unknown years.
• Added coup events in Sudan and Venezuela.
• Changed regime type for Turkey to party-personal hybrid (May 6th 2019) based on annulment of mayoral elections on May 6th.

Find the most current REIGN data here

Find the most current REIGN update-blog here

Find the most current CoupCast update-blog here

Election and Leader lists (May 2019)

Election List

Leader List

Regime List

Codebook and Technical Notes

Codebook

Technical Notes

Questions?

If you are unable to download the data, or have questions/inquiries, please contact Clayton Besaw (cbesaw@oneearthfuture.org). Also feel to contact Clayton if you notice any bugs or wrongly coded data. Thanks!