Replication Data for Rebel Victory and Constitutional Change

This dataset provides a comprehensive cross-national analysis of constitutional provisions regarding property rights in rebel and non-rebel regimes from 1946 to 2021. It focuses on rebel victories, defined as the extra-legal acquisition of central authority by non-state armed forces or factions within the state military apparatus following civil wars. Rebel victory cases were identified using the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) Conflict Termination Dataset and the Correlates of War (COW) dataset, supplemented with additional criteria to exclude cases of foreign intervention or incomplete rebel control. The dataset includes 44 states with 1,175 rebel regime-years.

Constitutional data were sourced from the Comparative Constitutions Project (CCP), which documents formal constitutional texts since 1789. The dataset captures constitutional changes (amendments, interim constitutions, or new constitutions) initiated by rebel regimes and examines four key property rights provisions: (1) private property rights, (2) expropriation for public purposes, (3) payment timelines for expropriated property, and (4) expropriation through legal process or court decision. These variables are analyzed to assess how rebel regimes use constitutional changes to consolidate power and control property rights.