REIGN Dataset

November 2019 REIGN Dataset: November 6th, 2019

New Leaders

• Luca Boschi and Mariella Mularoni (San Marino)
• Sophie Wilmès (Belgium)
• Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa (Tonga)
• Kais Saied (Tunisia)

Key Elections

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Botswana
• Canada
• Kosovo
• Mozambique
• Switzerland
• Tunisia
• Uruguay

Version Updates (As of November 6th, 2019)

• An acting PM for Tonga has been retroactively added to account for their leadership tenure before October’s selection of a new PM.
• Leadership in Cuba has been retroactively changed back to Raul Castro after examining the current leadership structure in Cuba.
• The coalition talks have been resolved in Belgium. Sophie Wilmès is now the first female prime minister in Belgian history.
• Updated precipitation (SPI) estimates using NOAA’s October 2019 PREC/L release (https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.prel.html).
• Updated economic estimates with the IMF’s October Global Economic Outlook release (https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2019/10/01/world-economic-outlook-october-2019).
• Updated economic estimates with the World Bank’s newest GDP data (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ny.gdp.pcap.cd)
• Updated infant mortality rate estimates with the World Bank’s newest IMF data (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN)
• Updated internal political violence indicator using the newest Global Terrorism Database release (https://www.start.umd.edu/research-projects/global-terrorism-database-gtd)
• Updated internal political violence indicator using newest UCDP Georeferenced Event Data release (https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/)
• Updated regime type for Bolivia. Bolivia is now coded as a party-personalist government as of October 25th, 2019. This was a difficult decision and the REIGN team waited until after the election to come to a conclusion. Given the government’s behavior in previous term-limit debates and solid evidence of electoral irregularities, we have changed Bolivia from a presidential democracy to a party-personalist system.

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Election and Leader lists (November 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!