Talk:Political factors

• correlates of war variables forthcoming: Social Expenditure by branch, Colonial Dependency, War/ Civil War / Riot

Sources for above codes:Polity IV variables[1]

*"Persist" only available in p4d, needs to be hand coded or imported separately

NOTE: Missing Data has several codes: Interruption Periods (!66) Interregnum Periods (!77) Transition Periods (!88)

Open Question: Do we want these variables? 4.1 PRIOR Prior Polity Code (p4) 4.2 EMONTH Polity End Month 4.3 EDAY Polity End Day 4.4 EYEAR Polity End Year 4.5 EPREC End Date Precision 4.6 INTERIM Interim Polity Code (p4) 4.7 BMONTH Polity Begin Month 4.8 BDAY Polity Begin Day 4.9 BYEAR Polity Begin Year 4.10 BPREC Begin Date Precision 4.11 POST Post Polity Code (p4) 4.12 CHANGE Total change in POLITY value (p4) 4.13 D4 Regime Transition Completed (p4) 4.14 SF State Failure (p4) 4.15 REGTRANS Regime Transition (p4)