QoG Data

Classification of Political Regimes

Data source: Cheibub, Gandhi and Vreeland

Classification of political regimes as democracy and dictatorship. Classification of democracies as parliamentary, semi-presidential (mixed) and presidential. Classification of dictatorships as military, civilian and royal.

Dataset type

Time-Series

Dataset level

Country

Last updated by source

2010-09-13

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• Cheibub, J. A., Gandhi, J., & Vreeland, J. R. (2010). Democracy and dictatorship revisited. Public Choice, 143(1-2), 67–101.

@article{chga1,
 author = {Cheibub, José Antonio and Gandhi, Jennifer and Vreeland, James Raymond},
 journal = {Public Choice},
 last_updated = {2024-10-18},
 number = {1-2},
 pages = {67--101},
 publisher = {Springer},
 title = {Democracy and Dictatorship Revisited},
 volume = {143},
 year = {2010}
}

Variables in this dataset

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Democracy

QoG code: chga_demo

A regime is considered a democracy if the executive and the legislature is directly or indirectly elected by popular vote, multiple parties are allowed, there is de facto existence of multiple parties ...

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Regime Institutions

QoG code: chga_hinst

Six-fold classification of political regimes: 0. Parliamentary Democracy. 1. Mixed (semi-presidential) democracy. 2. Presidential democracy. 3. Civilian dictatorship. 4. Military dictator ...

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