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Political System
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This category includes variables describing the rules of the political system (presidential or parliamentary system), the chief executive (years in office), regime type, stability (age of present regime), and checks and balances as well as aspects of federalism.
Practice: citizens can provide input for budget decisions
QoG code:
aii_q33
Official Religion
QoG code:
biu_offrel
Dichotomous democracy measure
QoG code:
bmr_dem
Number of previous democratic breakdowns
QoG code:
bmr_dembr
Consecutive years of current regime type
QoG code:
bmr_demdur
Democracy measure, requiring min. 50% of adult women have the right to vote
QoG code:
bmr_demfsuf
Dichotomous democracy measure (incl. missing for some countries)
QoG code:
bmr_demmis
Democratic transition
QoG code:
bmr_demtran
Democratic Breakdown
QoG code:
bnr_dem
No. of chambers in parliament
QoG code:
br_chpar
Is the country a colony
QoG code:
br_col
Is the country's regime communist / socialist
QoG code:
br_com
Is the country in the Commonwealth
QoG code:
br_cw
Is the country a democracy
QoG code:
br_dem
Typology of political institutions
QoG code:
br_elect
Is the president interim/temporary
QoG code:
br_int
Is the country a monarchy
QoG code:
br_mon
Is the monarch female
QoG code:
br_monf
New constitution implemented
QoG code:
br_newconst
Is the political system presidential
QoG code:
br_pres
Did the main regime change
QoG code:
br_regch
Approval of Democracy
QoG code:
bti_aod
Basic Administration
QoG code:
bti_ba
Commitment to Democratic Institutions
QoG code:
bti_cdi
Civil Society Participation
QoG code:
bti_csp
Civil Society Traditions
QoG code:
bti_cst
Democracy Status
QoG code:
bti_ds
Equal Opportunity
QoG code:
bti_eo
Effective Power to Govern
QoG code:
bti_epg
Free and Fair Elections
QoG code:
bti_ffe
International Cooperation
QoG code:
bti_ic
Interest Groups
QoG code:
bti_ig
Level of Difficulty
QoG code:
bti_lod
No Interference of Religious Dogmas
QoG code:
bti_nird
Performance of Democratic Institutions
QoG code:
bti_pdi
Political Participation
QoG code:
bti_pp
Private Property
QoG code:
bti_prp
Party System
QoG code:
bti_ps
Rule of Law
QoG code:
bti_rol
Stability of Democratic Institutions
QoG code:
bti_sdi
State Identity
QoG code:
bti_si
Separation of Powers
QoG code:
bti_sop
Stateness
QoG code:
bti_st
Central Bank Independence unweighted index
QoG code:
cbi_cbiu
Central Bank Independence weighted index
QoG code:
cbi_cbiw
Component 1: Chief executive officer
QoG code:
cbi_cceo
Component 4: Limitations on lending to the government
QoG code:
cbi_cll
Component 2: Objectives
QoG code:
cbi_cobj
Component 3: Policy formulation
QoG code:
cbi_cpol
Year of law creating the central bank
QoG code:
cbi_create
Year of a reform that decreased central bank independence
QoG code:
cbi_dec
Regional Diffusion for CBI
QoG code:
cbi_difreg
Effect of the central bank reform on the weighted index
QoG code:
cbi_dir
Year of a reform that increased central bank independence
QoG code:
cbi_inc
Year of a reform that affects the central bank independence
QoG code:
cbi_ref
Whether the central bank is a regional organization
QoG code:
cbi_reg
Reference in Constitution to Democracy
QoG code:
ccp_democ
Legislative Initiative Allowed
QoG code:
ccp_initiat
Reference in Constitution to Socialism
QoG code:
ccp_socialsm
Democracy
QoG code:
chga_demo
Regime Institutions
QoG code:
chga_hinst
Whether the autocratic regime ended in the year
QoG code:
chisols_autend
Whether the autocracy type of the state changed in the year
QoG code:
chisols_auttrans
Whether the state was democratic in the year
QoG code:
chisols_dem
Whether the democracy type of the state changed in the year
QoG code:
chisols_demtrans
Whether the state is a hybrid regime in the year
QoG code:
chisols_hybrid
Whether the state is an indirect military regime in the year
QoG code:
chisols_indmil
Whether the state is a military regime in the year
QoG code:
chisols_mil
Whether the state is mixed in the year
QoG code:
chisols_mixed
Whether the state is a monarchy in the year
QoG code:
chisols_mon
Whether the state was not independent in the year
QoG code:
chisols_nonindep
Whether the state is an oligarchy
QoG code:
chisols_olig
Whether the state is not one of the other Geddes et al types
QoG code:
chisols_other
Whether the state is parliamentary in the year
QoG code:
chisols_parl
Whether the state is a personalist regime in the year
QoG code:
chisols_per
Whether the state was presidential in the year
QoG code:
chisols_pres
Whether the regime type of the state changed in the year
QoG code:
chisols_regtrans
Number of SOLS changes in the year
QoG code:
chisols_solschange
Whether the state is a single-party regime in the year
QoG code:
chisols_sp
Number of leader transitions in the year
QoG code:
chisols_totalldrtrans
Whether the state is characterized by warlordism in the year
QoG code:
chisols_warlord
Satisfaction with Democracy
QoG code:
cses_sd
Accountability Transparency
QoG code:
diat_ati
Information Transparency
QoG code:
diat_iti
Transparency Index
QoG code:
diat_ti
Index of Globalization
QoG code:
dr_ig
Political Globalization
QoG code:
dr_pg
E-Government Index
QoG code:
egov_egov
E-Participation Index
QoG code:
egov_epar
Human Capital Index
QoG code:
egov_hci
Online Service Index
QoG code:
egov_osi
Telecommunication Infrastructure Index
QoG code:
egov_tii
State Legitimacy
QoG code:
ffp_sl
Political Pluralism and Participation
QoG code:
fh_ppp
Political Rights
QoG code:
fh_pr
Freedom Status
QoG code:
fh_status
Corruption Perception: Political Parties
QoG code:
gcb_ppa
Corruption Perception: Parliament
QoG code:
gcb_pparl
Global Gender Gap Political Empowerment Subindex
QoG code:
gggi_pes
Parliamentarism
QoG code:
gtm_parl
Unitarism
QoG code:
gtm_unit
Duration of Autocratic Regime
QoG code:
gwf_duration
Regime Failure
QoG code:
gwf_fail
Regime Failure - Subsequent Regime Type
QoG code:
gwf_failsub
Regime Failure - Ending Type
QoG code:
gwf_failtype
Regime Failure - Level of Violence
QoG code:
gwf_failviolent
Regime Type
QoG code:
gwf_regimetype
Independent Sub-Federal Unit
QoG code:
h_f
Legislative Chamber
QoG code:
h_l1
2nd Legislative Chamber
QoG code:
h_l2
Political Constraints Index III
QoG code:
h_polcon3
Political Constraints Index V
QoG code:
h_polcon5
Freedom from Government
QoG code:
hf_govt
HRV Index
QoG code:
hrv_index
HRV Index: Lower bound of point estimate
QoG code:
hrv_lb
HRV Index: Standard deviation of point estimate
QoG code:
hrv_sd
HRV Index: Upper bound of point estimate
QoG code:
hrv_ub
Regime Type
QoG code:
ht_regtype
Regime Type (simplified)
QoG code:
ht_regtype1
Appointment of Executive
QoG code:
iaep_ae
Appointment of Regional Representatives
QoG code:
iaep_arr
Some other executive have the power to call elections
QoG code:
iaep_callo
Constitutional Court
QoG code:
iaep_cc
Constitutional Court Rules on Executive Actions
QoG code:
iaep_ccrea
Constitutional Court Rules on Legislative Actions
QoG code:
iaep_ccrla
Executive Can Change Domestic Taxes
QoG code:
iaep_eccdt
Executive Can Dissolve Legislature
QoG code:
iaep_ecdl
Executive is Member of Legislature
QoG code:
iaep_eml
Executive Power over Military Force
QoG code:
iaep_epmf
Executive Veto Power
QoG code:
iaep_evp
Legislature Approves Budget
QoG code:
iaep_lap
Legislature Can Remove Executive
QoG code:
iaep_lcre
Some other executive have the power to introduce legislation
QoG code:
iaep_lego
Legislature's Ratification of International Treaties
QoG code:
iaep_lrit
Legislature Veto Power
QoG code:
iaep_lvp
Some other executive have the power to use force abroad
QoG code:
iaep_milo
Official State Party
QoG code:
iaep_osp
Unitary or Federal State
QoG code:
iaep_ufs
Who Removes Members of Constitutional Court
QoG code:
iaep_wrmcc
Bicameral System
QoG code:
jw_bicameral
Single Party System
QoG code:
jw_oneparty
Cluster memberships based on means
QoG code:
kun_cluster
Absolute political institutional quality (simple averages)
QoG code:
kun_polabs
Political institutional quality (relative factor scores)
QoG code:
kun_polrel
Political World Institutional Quality Ranking (all countries)
QoG code:
kun_wiqrpol_all
Political World Institutional Quality Ranking (full obs.)
QoG code:
kun_wiqrpol_full
First Multiparty Election
QoG code:
nelda_fme
Classification of Executives
QoG code:
no_ce
Unitary or Federal State
QoG code:
no_ufs
Regime Durability
QoG code:
p_durable
Revised Combined Polity Score
QoG code:
p_polity2
Federal Political Structure
QoG code:
pt_federal
Forms of Government
QoG code:
pt_pres
Entry at the lowest level only
QoG code:
qs20_close1
Entry via examination
QoG code:
qs20_close2
Special Laws
QoG code:
qs20_close3
Closedness Index
QoG code:
qs20_close_pca
Political Interference
QoG code:
qs20_impar1
Political Interference, lower limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_impar1_lowci
Political Interference, upper limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_impar1_upci
Impartiality
QoG code:
qs20_impar2
Impartiality, lower limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_impar2_lowci
Impartiality, upper limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_impar2_upci
Patronage
QoG code:
qs20_proff1
Patronage, lower limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_proff1_lowci
Patronage, upper limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_proff1_upci
Merit
QoG code:
qs20_proff2
Merit, lower limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_proff2_lowci
Merit, upper limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_proff2_upci
Tenure
QoG code:
qs20_proff3
Tenure, lower limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_proff3_lowci
Tenure, upper limit of 95% credible interval
QoG code:
qs20_proff3_upci
Professionalism Index
QoG code:
qs20_proff_pca
Consensus-Building
QoG code:
sgi_cb24
Coordination
QoG code:
sgi_co24
Diagonal Accountability
QoG code:
sgi_da24
Democratic Government
QoG code:
sgi_dg24
Environmental Sustainability
QoG code:
sgi_envs24
Economic Sustainability
QoG code:
sgi_es24
Good Governance
QoG code:
sgi_go
Good Governance: Executive Accountability
QoG code:
sgi_goea
Good Governance: Executive Capacity
QoG code:
sgi_goec
Governing with Foresight
QoG code:
sgi_gwf24
Horizontal Accountability
QoG code:
sgi_ha24
Robust Democracy
QoG code:
sgi_qd
Robust Democracy: Access to Information
QoG code:
sgi_qdai
Robust Democracy: Civil Rights and Political Liberties
QoG code:
sgi_qdcr
Robust Democracy: Electoral Process
QoG code:
sgi_qdep
Robust Democracy: Rule of Law
QoG code:
sgi_qdrl
Robust Democracy: Rule of Law - Corruption Prevention
QoG code:
sgi_qdrlc
Sensemaking
QoG code:
sgi_sm24
Sustainable Policymaking
QoG code:
sgi_sp24
Social Sustainability
QoG code:
sgi_ss24
Vertical Accountability
QoG code:
sgi_va24
KOLFU: Politician influencing public administration report
QoG code:
swm_kfu_corr1
KOLFU: Former politician hired
QoG code:
swm_kfu_corr2
KOLFU: The influence of municipal council
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl1
KOLFU: The influence of respondents
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl10
KOLFU: The influence of municipal executive board
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl2
KOLFU: The influence of chairman of municipal executive board
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl3
KOLFU: The influence of other municipal politicians
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl4
KOLFU: The influence of bureaucrats
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl5
KOLFU: The influence of citizens
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl6
KOLFU: The influence of public authorities
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl7
KOLFU: The influence of the local industry and commerce
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl8
KOLFU: The influence of journalists monitoring the municipal politics.
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polinfl9
KOLFU: The main occupation is bureaucrat with supervisory position
QoG code:
swm_kfu_polocc2
One party has ruled the executive board for the last 40 years
QoG code:
swm_oneparty
The party that has ruled the executive board for the last 40 years
QoG code:
swm_oneparty_party
Political secretaries, number of full time positions in the municipality
QoG code:
swm_polsec1
Political secretaries, total number in the municipality
QoG code:
swm_polsec2
Frequency of municipal citizen dialogue held during mandate period: 4 or more
QoG code:
swm_scb_cd1
Frequency of municipal citizen dialogue held during mandate period: 1-3
QoG code:
swm_scb_cd2
The municipality offer citizen dialogue
QoG code:
swm_scb_cd3
Possibility to participate in citizen dialogue via the municipal website
QoG code:
swm_scb_cd4
Number of citizen proposals approved during mandate period
QoG code:
swm_scb_cpap
Number of citizen proposals submitted during mandate period
QoG code:
swm_scb_cpsub
Share of women in municipal assembly
QoG code:
swm_scb_mafem
Petition for referendum during the present mandate period
QoG code:
swm_scb_petref
The municipality has political secretaries hired during the mandate period
QoG code:
swm_scb_polsec
Referendums held during mandate period
QoG code:
swm_scb_ref
Voter turnout in municipal elections
QoG code:
swm_scb_voteturn
The executive board ruled by political minority
QoG code:
swm_skl_minority
Ideology of ruling coalition
QoG code:
swm_skl_rulcoal
Unified Demo. Score Posterior (Mean)
QoG code:
uds_mean
Unified Demo. Score Posterior (Median)
QoG code:
uds_median
Unified Demo. Score Posterior (2.5 percentile)
QoG code:
uds_pct025
Unified Demo. Score Posterior (97.5 percentile)
QoG code:
uds_pct975
Unified Demo. Score Posterior (Std. Dev.)
QoG code:
uds_sd
Index of Democratization
QoG code:
van_index
Deliberative democracy index
QoG code:
vdem_delibdem
Deliberative component index
QoG code:
vdem_dl_delib
Electoral component index
QoG code:
vdem_edcomp_thick
Egalitarian component index
QoG code:
vdem_egal
Egalitarian democracy index
QoG code:
vdem_egaldem
Liberal democracy index
QoG code:
vdem_libdem
Liberal component index
QoG code:
vdem_liberal
Participatory component index
QoG code:
vdem_partip
Participatory democracy index
QoG code:
vdem_partipdem
Electoral democracy index
QoG code:
vdem_polyarchy
Regimes of the world with ambiguous cases
QoG code:
vdem_regimeamb
Voice and Accountability, Estimate
QoG code:
wbgi_vae
Voice and Accountability, Number of Sources
QoG code:
wbgi_van
Voice and Accountability, Standard Error
QoG code:
wbgi_vas
Enlightened Understanding of Democracy
QoG code:
wel_demenl
Liberal Understanding of Democracy
QoG code:
wel_demlib
Non-Liberal Understanding of Democracy
QoG code:
wel_demnlib
Democratic Rights
QoG code:
wel_dr
Effective Democracy Index
QoG code:
wel_edi
Regime Type
QoG code:
wel_regtype
Political System Type
QoG code:
wel_sys
Non-Autocracy
QoG code:
wr_nonautocracy
Regime Type
QoG code:
wr_regtype
World Uncertainty Index
QoG code:
wui_wui
Confidence: The Civil Services
QoG code:
wvs_confcs
Confidence: The Government
QoG code:
wvs_confgov
Confidence: Parliament
QoG code:
wvs_confpar
Confidence: The United Nations
QoG code:
wvs_confun
Importance of democracy
QoG code:
wvs_demimp
Democraticness in own country
QoG code:
wvs_democ
Politicians who don't believe in God are unfit for public office
QoG code:
wvs_godpol
Important in life: Politics
QoG code:
wvs_imppol
Interest in politics
QoG code:
wvs_polint
Political system: Having the army rule
QoG code:
wvs_psarmy
Political system: Having a democratic political system
QoG code:
wvs_psdem
Political system: Having experts make decisions
QoG code:
wvs_psexp
Political system: Having a strong leader
QoG code:
wvs_pssl