Foreign Minister Dataset
Introduction
For their article "War, Performance, and the Survival of Foreign Ministers", Hanna Bäck, Jan Teorell, Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar and Alejandro Quiroz Flores created The Foreign Minister Dataset. 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.
For citations: Bäck, Hanna, Jan Teorell, Alexander von Hagen-Jamar & Alejandro Quiroz Flores. 2021. ”War, Performance, and the Survival of Foreign Ministers”. Foreign Policy Analysis 17(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/oraa024
For citations: Bäck, Hanna, Jan Teorell, Alexander von Hagen-Jamar & Alejandro Quiroz Flores. 2021. ”War, Performance, and the Survival of Foreign Ministers”. Foreign Policy Analysis 17(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/oraa024
Data
Below you will find the data and the codebook:
| AllCountriesFINAL_VERSION.dta |
| AllCountriesFINAL_VERSION.csv |
| Foreign_Ministers_Codebook_4.1.pdf |
