Software
contentiousR
An R package that provides tools and datasets for contentious politics and civil conflict research. It offers a flexible workflow for building state panels and enriching them with socioeconomic, political, and conflict indicators, using either the Correlates of War (COW) or Gleditsch-Ward (GW) country coding schemes.
Installation
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("rguseinov/contentiousR")
Example
library(contentiousR)
panel <- build_states_panel(start_year = 1990, end_year = 2015, coding_system = "cow") |>
add_gdp() |>
add_vdem(vars = c("v2x_polyarchy", "v2x_libdem")) |>
add_conflict(dataset = "navco2.1") |>
add_leader_data(dataset = "archigos")
Citation
Guseinov, R. (2026). contentiousR: An R package for contentious politics and civil conflict research [Preprint]. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7506799