World handbook of political and social indicators II, 1948-1967
Subtitle: annual event data
By: principal investigators, Charles Lewis Taylor and Michael C. Hudson
Series: ICPSR -- 5028; ICPSR (Series) -- 5028
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Number of pages: 1073
Subjects: Political indicators; Social indicators; Social history; Statistics
Description: This dataset contains information on eighteen types of political events aggregated by year to the nation level for years 1948-1967. The events included are riots, deaths from political violence, political assassinations, armed attacks, elections, protest demonstrations, regime support demonstrations, political strikes, renewals of power, unsuccessful executive transfers, unsuccessful irregular transfers, irregular power transfers, executive adjustments, regular executive transfers, executions, acts of negative sanctions, acts of relaxation of political restrictions, and external interventions.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class I.

Chronological coverage: 1948-1967.

Sources are the New York Times and the Associated Press. Data were collected by the World Data Analysis Program at Yale University.

Taylor, Charles L., and Michael C. Hudson. World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators, Second Edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.