The LEADERS Data Set: Time in Power for Leaders of Countries
The LEADERS data set, analyzed in Chapter 6, “Competing Risks,” is described in detail by Henry Bienen and Nicolas van de Walle (1991), who generously provided me with the data. Each record in the data set corresponds to a spell in power for a primary leader of a country. I used a subset of the original data, restricting the spells to countries outside of Europe, North America, and Australia; spells that began in 1960 or later; and only the first leadership spell for those leaders with multiple spells. This left a total of 472 spells.
Each record includes the following variables:
| YEARS | is the number of years in power, integer valued. Leaders in power less than one year have a value ... |
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