Octavio Amorim Neto developed this time-series dataset documenting Brazil's military expenditures and political correlates from 1822 to 1945. It tracks defense spending alongside variables for political instability, electoral democracy levels, and international security factors during the country's pre-democratic era. The data was synthesized through historiographical research to provide the first systematic quantitative record of Brazilian defense policy for this period.
Use Cases
- Modeling the relationship between political instability and annual military expenditure levels
- Investigating the correlation between Brazil's defense burden and the US security umbrella in the early 20th century
- Testing hypotheses regarding the influence of military political power on national defense budgets
Strengths
- Covers a 123-year historical period from 1822 to 1945
- First systematic quantitative study of Brazilian defense spending for this era
- Original data derived from primary historiographical research
Limitations
- Geographic scope is limited to Brazil
- Historical data from the 19th century may contain measurement noise
- Dataset ends in 1945, precluding analysis of the modern democratic era
Provenance
- Source
- Octavio Amorim Neto, Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Historiographical research and time-series construction
- Time Range
- 1822-1945
- Geography
- Brazil