Foreign Minister Dataset
Introduction
The Foreign Minister Dataset consists of comparative historical data on foreign ministers’ background and reasons for leaving office in the world’s 13 former and current great powers from 1789 to the present. The data covers 1155 regular (non-acting) foreign ministers, as well as partial information on 173 acting foreign ministers, for the following 13 great powers: Austria (the Habsburg Empire/Austria-Hungary), Britain, China (Qing Empire/Republic/People’s Republic of China), France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Prussia/Germany, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States.
Data
Below you will find the data and the codebook:
| AllCountriesFINAL_VERSION.dta |
| AllCountriesFINAL_VERSION.csv |
| Foreign_Ministers_Codebook_4.1.pdf |
