Contested Sovereignty: A Global Compilation of Sovereignty Referendums (1776-2012)
This dataset contains the data files, codebook and replication files for the paper, "Contested Sovereignty: Mapping Referendums on Sovereignty over Time and Space." It contains information on 602 sovereignty referendums from 1776–2012. The dataset uses an improved conceptualization and theory-driven typology to overcome issues of vagueness, inconsistent coding, ad hoc categorizations and incomplete coverage known to affect earlier datasets on this topic.
Cite this dataset as:
Mendez, F.,
Germann, M.,
2016.
Contested Sovereignty: A Global Compilation of Sovereignty Referendums (1776-2012).
Harvard Dataverse.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PXMGHF.
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Creators
Fernando Mendez
University of Zurich
Micha Germann
University of Bath; University of Zurich
Coverage
Temporal coverage:
From 1776 to 2012
Geographical coverage:
Global
Documentation
Additional information:
The creators request that the associated paper is cited in place of this dataset.
Funders
Swiss National Science Foundation
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001711
The people's constituent power: referendums on sovereignty issues
135127
Publication details
Publication date: 26 January 2016
by: Harvard Dataverse
Version: 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PXMGHF
URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/553
Related papers and books
Mendez, F., and Germann, M., 2016. Contested Sovereignty: Mapping Referendums on Sovereignty over Time and Space. British Journal of Political Science, 48(1), 141-165. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123415000563.
Contact information
Please contact the Research Data Service in the first instance for all matters concerning this item.
Contact person: Micha Germann
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Politics, Languages and International Studies
