Data source: Bjørnskov and Rode
Bjørnskov-Rode update and provide an expansion of Cheibub, Gandhi and Vreeland’s Democracy-Dictatorship dataset. The authors expand the coverage to a total of 192 sovereign countries and 16 self-governing territories between 1950 and 2024. They provide more institutional details relevant in the literature and finally, they introduce an indicator of successful and failed coups d'état.
When using this dataset, please cite as:
(Bjørnskov & Rode,
2020)
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br_chpar
Total number of chambers in parliament.
br_com
Is the country's regime communist / socialist? (0: No; 1: Yes)
br_cw
Is the country a member of the British Commonwealth? (0: No; 1: Yes)
br_dem
Is the country democratic or not? Following Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland (2010). Dichotomous indicator of democracy based on a minimalist definition. A country is defined as democratic, if electi ...
br_elecpost
Whether an election at the Parliament held that year was postponed from an earlier date (0: No, 1: Yes)
br_elect
Alternative democracy indicator capturing degree of multi-party competition. (0: No elections; 1: Single-party elections; 2: Non-democratic multi-party elections; 3: Democratic elections).
br_elecyear
Whether an election at the Parliament was held that year (0: No, 1: Yes)
br_int
Is the president interim / preliminary? (More than 2 presidents/year=1; Otherwise=0)
br_mon
Is the country a hereditary monarchy? (0: No; 1: Yes)
br_newconst
Whether a new constitution was implemented (0: No; 1: Yes)
br_pres
Is the political system presidential? (0: No; 1: Yes)
br_pvote
Is the electoral system characterized by including proportional representation? (0: No; 1: Yes)
br_regch
If a coded event, such as a change in the Presidency, took place after 01.07 it is assigned to the following calendar year in the data. In this case, the lag variable will be equal to one. For all cha ...
br_suff
Whether the electoral system attributes full suffrage (0: No; 1: Yes)