Argentine Army Officer Careers and Authoritarian Regime Dynamics

This dataset supports a book analyzing the link between career pressure and political behavior in authoritarian security apparatuses. It includes unique career data on thousands of Argentine army officers, case studies of Germany, the Soviet Union, and Gambia, and a global analysis of regimes since 1945.

Use Cases

• Analyze career advancement patterns of Argentine army officers to identify factors linked to participation in repression or coups.
• Conduct a comparative case study of officer behavior across the regimes of Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, and Jawara's Gambia.
• Perform a global statistical analysis of authoritarian regime survival and collapse dynamics since 1945.
• Examine the organizational structure and promotion systems within authoritarian security forces as described in the source material.

Strengths

• Draws on unique career data covering thousands of Argentine army officers.
• Integrates in-depth case studies from three distinct historical and geographical contexts.
• Provides a global analysis of authoritarian regimes with temporal coverage since 1945.

Limitations

• The specific data format, column structure, and row count are not provided in the input.
• The dataset's primary purpose is to support a specific book's theory, which may limit its generalizability.
• The global analysis component may aggregate data from secondary sources with varying methodologies.

Provenance

Source

Scharpf, Adam via Harvard Dataverse.

Collection Method

Combines unique officer career data, historical case studies, and global regime analysis.

Time Range

Includes a global analysis component covering the period since 1945.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

Focus includes Argentina, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Gambia, with a global comparative scope.