What is EUGene, anyway?
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. Until now, these data have been unavailable, and these data management tasks have frequently been cumbersome and difficult. A paper exploring EUGene’s capabilities and rationale is available here. EUGene is an acronym for Expected Utility Generation and data management program. EUGene is freeware, but is copyrighted. A full download (see the download page) contains the program, expected utility data, documentation, and so
