Replication data for: A Two-Level Theory of Presidential Instability

Data for 532 administration-years, corresponding to 116 presidents in 18 Latin American countries between 1980 (or the year of the transition to democracy) and 2007. Variables include a dummy indicating an interruption of the president's tenure in any given year, five dichotomous indicators capturing the social composition of popular protests (if any: workers , state employees, rural poor, urban poor, and middle class), the size of the president's party in congress, party factionalism, per capita income, growth, inflation, media scandals, and military uprisings.