Coding disaggregated intrastate conflict: Machine processing the behavior of substate actors over time and space

Abstract

This article describes a new machine-coded event data set specifically designed to study the spatially, temporally, and tactically disaggregated actions of multiple state and nonstate actors in a systematic fashion. The project develops an extensive set of dictionaries for multiple actors and employs a new coding scheme to organize information on such actors and their behavior. The author describes the machine content-analysis methods used to collect the data and the newly developed coding scheme. © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Political Methodology. All rights reserved.