Alexander Baturo's dataset provides novel measures of dismissals and reshuffles in autocratic regimes and communist Politburos. The data supports a theoretical framework analyzing dictators as managers of their ruling coalitions. It was last updated on April 16, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the impact of elite dismissals on intra-regime conflict based on dismissal measures
- Testing the relationship between reshuffles and regime continuity based on reshuffle measures
- Comparing elite management strategies across autocratic regimes and communist Politburos
- Modeling autocratic survival probabilities based on elite management event data
Strengths
- Dataset is associated with a published theoretical framework on elite management
- Provides novel measures for dismissals and reshuffles in autocratic regimes
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- World Politics Dataverse
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 13:06:26