QoG Data

Centripetal Democratic Governance

Data source: Gerring, Thacker and Moreno

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Data used in the book "A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance" (Gerring, John and Thacker, Strom C, 2008).

Dataset type

Time-Series

Dataset level

Country

Last updated by source

2008-06-12

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• Gerring, J., Thacker, S. C., & Moreno, C. (2005). Centripetal democratic governance: A theory and global inquiry. American Political Science Review, 99(4), 567–581. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30038965

@article{gtm1,
 author = {Gerring, John and Thacker, Strom C. and Moreno, Carola},
 journal = {American Political Science Review},
 last_updated = {2025-11-05},
 number = {4},
 pages = {567-581},
 publisher = {[American Political Science Association, Cambridge University Press]},
 title = {Centripetal Democratic Governance: A Theory and Global Inquiry},
 url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/30038965},
 volume = {99},
 year = {2005}
}

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Parliamentarism

QoG code: gtm_parl

The parliamentary/presidential distinction is conceptualized as a continuum with two dimensions: (a) the degree of separation (independence) between president and parliament (unity = parliamentary, se ...

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Proportional Representation

QoG code: gtm_pr

The centripetal theory of democratic governance emphasizes the following three features of an electoral system: (a) district magnitude (M), (b) seat allocation rules (majoritarian or proportional), an ...

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Unitarism

QoG code: gtm_unit

Average of Nonfederalism and Nonbicameralism: Nonfederalism is coded as 0 = federal (elective regional legislatures plus conditional recognition of subnational authority), 1 = semifederal (where there ...

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