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Hanson & Sigman's State Capacity Index

Data source: Jonathan Hanson and Rachel Sigman

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.

Dataset type

Time-Series

Dataset level

Country

Last updated by source

2020-12-10

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.

@misc{lld0,
 author = {Hanson, Jonathan and Sigman, Rachel},
 doi = {10.7910/DVN/IFZXQX},
 last_updated = {2024-10-11},
 publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
 title = {{Leviathan's Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research}},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IFZXQX},
 year = {2020}
}

@article{lld1,
 author = {Hanson, Jonathan K. and Sigman, Rachel},
 journal = {The Journal of Politics},
 last_updated = {2024-10-11},
 number = {4},
 pages = {1495--1510},
 publisher = {The University of Chicago Press},
 title = {Leviathan's Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research},
 volume = {83},
 year = {2021}
}

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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 Bay ...

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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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