The Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project Issue Data Sets: Regime Claims Data Set

This data set is still in collection and will be made available upon completion This data set includes data on explicit statements by one or more states seeking to remove the specific leader or entire political system of at least one other state, as well as details of each claim such as characteristics of the claim's initiator and target and the relationship between their states. The data set is currently limited to regime claims involving Latin American regimes (although the challenger may come from outside of the region), although there are plans to extend this data collection to the remainder of the world.

Any questions about this data set should be directed to John Tures. A recent version of the codebook (current as of May 2002) is available for the ICOW regime claims data set, in Adobe Acrobat [PDF] format. The official list of Western Hemisphere regime claims is also available, with information identifying each claim such as the challenger and target state, name of the targeted leader, and the beginning and ending date of each c laim; additional variables that can be used to measure claim salience will be made available at a later date.