Hanson & Sigman's State Capacity Index

Data source: Hanson and Sigman

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Description:

Data used in the article "Leviathan's Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research" (Hanson & Sigman, 2021). The authors identify three core dimensions of state capacity, develop the expectation that they are mutually supporting and interlinked, and estimate the state capacity using Bayesian latent variable analysis.

Last updated by source: 2020-12-10

Dataset type: Time-Series
Dataset level: Country

Citation:

When using this dataset, please cite as:
• Hanson, J. K., & Sigman, R. (2021). Leviathan’s latent dimensions: Measuring state capacity for comparative political research. The Journal of Politics, 83(4), 1495–1510.
• Hanson, J., & Sigman, R. (2020). Leviathan’s Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research (Version V1). Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IFZXQX



Variables in this dataset:

   Hanson & Sigman State Capacity Index
QoG Code: lld_capacity

Hanson & Sigman´s State Capacity Estimate. Three dimensions of state capacity that their estimate relies on are extractive capacity, coercive capacity, and administrative capacity. The authors use Bayesian latent variable analysis to estimate state capacity at the conjunction of indicators related to these dimensions.

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   Standard Deviation for Hanson & Sigman State Capacity Index
QoG Code: lld_capstd

Standard Deviation for Hanson & Sigman´s State Capacity Estimate.

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