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The Political Instability Task Force

By Kieron L Jones, on 23 March 2009

PITF The Political Instability Task Force (PITF) is a panel of scholars and methodologists which is funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. The PITF website is hosted by the Center for Global Policy at George Mason University. It investigates issues relating to state failure and political instability, specialising in the production of statistical datasets. This includes coverage of revolutionary wars, ethnic wars, adverse regime changes, and genocides and politicides. The main time period covered is currently 1955-2007. Users may download many of the datasets produced by the project from the website. Also accessible are associated codebooks and working papers. Information on methodology and copyright is provided.
Source: LIS-SOCIALSCIENCE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

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