EUGene 3.204

EUGene is a program designed primarily for political scientists. It has 2 purposes. First, EUGene generates data for variables used to test Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and colleagues’ version of an expected utility theory of war and dispute initiation (Bueno de Mesquita, 1981, 1985; Bueno de Mesquita and Lalman, 1992). Second, EUGene serves as a data management tool for creating data sets for use in the quantitative analysis of international relations; with the country-year, directed-dyad-year, non-directed-dyad-year, and directed-dispute-dyad-year as the unit of analysis.

EUGene is an acronym for Expected Utility Generation and data management program. EUGene is freeware, but is copyrighted.

Main Features:
- Provides expected utility data both as raw utility scores and as equilibrium predictions from the International Interaction game (Bueno de Mesquita and Lalman 1992).
- Provides updated risk scores for all countries and years from 1816-1984 (updated according to the methods in "The War Trap Revisited" Bueno de Mesquita 1985)
- Creates output data sets with the directed-dyad year, non directed-dyad year, country-year, and directed-dispute dyad units of analysis
- Creates flat text output files containing expected utility (and other) data; variables can be separated by tabs, commas, or spaces (your choice) for easy input into statistics programs
- Automatically creates command files to read data into STATA, SPSS, and LIMDEP
- Builds data sets using your choice of variables from a variety of input data sets:
- input data sets include Polity III data and the Correlates of War capabilities, alliance, contiguity, and system membership data sets
- computes derivative variables including tau-b scores, expected utility information, state-to-state distances, and democratization
- converts input data sets with country-year or dyad-year unit of analysis into a directed dyad-year format
- Allows you to select a population of cases in space (politically relevant, major power, contiguous, or specified selection of dyads) and time (choose all years 1816-1993 or a subrange)
- Can generate a sample of dyads, either a straight sample or stratified according to dispute behavior