AidData

QoG Code: aid

• Dataset: AidData v. 3.1

Global Integrity

QoG Code: aii

• Dataset: Africa Integrity Indicators

Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson

QoG Code: ajr

• Dataset: Settler Mortality

Alesina, Devleeschauwer, Easterly, Kurlat and Wacziarg

QoG Code: al

• Dataset: Fractionalization

The Association of Religion Data Archives

QoG Code: arda

• Dataset: World Religion Project: National Religion Dataset

Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions Project (ATOP)

QoG Code: atop

• Dataset: The ATOP State-Year dataset

Michaël Aklin and Johannes Urpelainen

QoG Code: au

Data on the establishment of environmental ministries from the article: Aklin, M. and Urpelainen, J., 2014. The global spread of environmental ministries: domestic–international interactions. International Studies Quarterly, 58(4), pp.764-780.

• Dataset: Environmental Ministries

Bank Ownership Around the World

QoG Code: banko

• Dataset: Bank Ownership Around the World

Michèle B. Baettig, Simone Brander, Dieter M. Imboden

QoG Code: bbi

Data used in the article: Bättig, M.B., Brander, S. and Imboden, D.M., 2008. Measuring countries’ cooperation within the international climate change regime. Environmental Science & Policy, 11(6), pp.478-489.

• Dataset: Cooperation in International Climate Change Regime

Thomas Bernauer, Tobias Böhmelt, and Vally Koubi

QoG Code: bbk

Data on environmental non-governmental organizations used in the article: Bernauer, T., Böhmelt, T. and Koubi, V., 2013. Is there a democracy–civil society paradox in global environmental governance?. Global Environmental Politics, 13(1), pp.88-107.

• Dataset: Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations

Sherppa Ghent University

QoG Code: bci

• Dataset: The Bayesian Corruption Index

Marc Berenson

QoG Code: berenson

• Dataset: Re-Creating the state: Governance, civil society and trust in Poland, Russia and Ukraine 2008-2012

Frida Boräng, Simon Felgendreher, Niklas Harring, and Åsa Löfgren

QoG Code: bfhl

• Dataset: Accountable Climate Targets

The World Conservation Union Red List of Threatened Species

QoG Code: bi

• Dataset: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (version 2021-3)

Bonn International Center for Conversion

QoG Code: bicc

• Dataset: Global Militarization Index

Bar-Ilan University

QoG Code: biu

• Dataset: Religion and State Project

Barro and Lee

QoG Code: bl

• Dataset: Educational Attainment Dataset

Carles Boix, Michael K. Miller and Sebastian Rosato

QoG Code: bmr

• Dataset: Boix-Miller-Rosato Dichotomous Coding of Democracy, 1800-2020

Bernhard, Nordstrom and Reenock

QoG Code: bnr

• Dataset: Event History Coding of Democratic Breakdowns

Bjørnskov and Rode

QoG Code: br

• Dataset: Bjørnskov-Rode regime data

Bertelsmann Stiftung

QoG Code: bti

• Dataset: Bertelsmann Transformation Index
• Dataset: Sustainable Governance Indicators

Forman-Rabinovici and Sommer

QoG Code: cai

• Dataset: The Comparative Abortion Index Project

Coppedge, Alvarez and Maldonado

QoG Code: cam

• Dataset: Contestation and Inclusiveness, 1950-2000

Ana Carolina Garriga

QoG Code: cbi

• Dataset: Central Bank Independence Dataset

The Comparative Constitutions Project

QoG Code: ccp

• Dataset: Characteristics of National Constitutions

Cheibub, Gandhi and Vreeland

QoG Code: chga

• Dataset: Classification of Political Regimes

Change in Source of Leader Support

QoG Code: chisols

The 'Change in Source of Leader Support' (CHISOLS) data is an effort by Michaela Mattes, Brett Ashley Leeds and Naoko Matsumura.

• Dataset: Change in Source of Leader Support

Luciana Cingolani

QoG Code: cingolani

Luciana Cingolani is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Hertie School. She is also an affiliate of the Centre for Digital Governance and an Expert of UNESCO’s Inclusive Policy Lab. Her career has focused on the quality of governance and institutions.

• Dataset: Multidimensional Index of Bureaucratic Underrepresentation

Cingranelli, David L., David L. Richards, and K. Chad Clay

QoG Code: ciri

• Dataset: The CIRIGHTS Data project

Armingeon, Engler and Leemann

QoG Code: cpds

• Dataset: Comparative Political Data Set

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters

QoG Code: cred

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) has been active for over 40 years in the fields of international disaster and conflict health studies, with activities linking relief, rehabilitation and development. The Centre promotes research, training and technical expertise on humanitarian emergencies, particularly in public health and epidemiology. CRED's research scope includes two main axes: natural disasters and crisis situations caused by civil strife, conflict or others. CRED studies broader aspects of humanitarian crises and emergencies, such as socio-economic, gender and environmental issues, with a strong focus on the special needs of vulnerable groups such as women and children. By providing a wealth of data on health issues arising from disasters and conflict, CRED seeks to improve needs-based preparedness and responses to humanitarian emergencies.

• Dataset: Emergency Events Database

Fazekas and Kocsis

QoG Code: cri

• Dataset: Corruption Risks Indicators

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)

QoG Code: cses

• Dataset: CSES datasets

Center of Systemic Peace

QoG Code: cspf

• Dataset: State Fragility Index and Matrix

Vincenzo Emanuele

QoG Code: dev

• Dataset: Dataset of Electoral Volatility in Western Europe
• Dataset: New Parties and Party System Innovation in Western Europe

Andrew Williams

QoG Code: diat

• Dataset: Dataset for Information and Accountability Transparency (2014)

ETH Zurich

QoG Code: dr

• Dataset: KOF Index of Globalization

European Commission

QoG Code: ec

• Dataset: EDGAR - Global Air Pollutant Emissions
• Dataset: EDGAR - Fossil CO2 Emissions of All World Countries

The Access Initiative (TAI) and World Resources Institute (WRI)

QoG Code: edi

• Dataset: The Environmental Democracy Index

Global Footprint Network

QoG Code: ef

• Dataset: Global Footprint data

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

QoG Code: egov

• Dataset: UN E-Government Knowledgebase

The Energy Institute

QoG Code: ei

The Energy Institute (EI) is the chartered professional membership body for people who work across the world of energy. Their purpose is creating a better energy future for our members and society by accelerating a just global energy transition to net zero.

• Dataset: Statistical Review of World Energy

Holzinger, Knill, Sommerer

QoG Code: envipolcon

ENVIPOLCON is the acronym of ‘Environmental governance in Europe: the impact of international institutions and trade on policy convergence’. The project was carried out between 2003 and 2006 by the following universities: University of Konstanz, Germany University of Hamburg, Germany Free University of Berlin, Germany University of Salzburg, Austria Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands The project was supported by the EU, RTD programme ‘Improving the human research potential and the socioeconomic knowledge base’, contract no. HPSE-CT-2002-00103. Link does not fit below: https://www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/holzinger/research/research-projects/policy-wandel-in-der-umweltpolitik-der-einfluss-von-nationalen-vetospielern-und-transnationalem-policy-learning/der-datensatz-environmental-policy-chance-envipolchange/

• Dataset: ENVIPOLCON
• Dataset: ENVIPOLCONCHANGE

Ease of Doing Business Report

QoG Code: eob

• Dataset: Ease of Doing Business - Historical Data

Environmental Performance Index

QoG Code: epi

• Dataset: Environmental Performance Index Data 2022

European Quality of Government Index

QoG Code: eqi

• Dataset: European Quality of Government Index

Eskander and Fankhauser

QoG Code: esfa

• Dataset: Stock of Climate Laws and Policies

European Social Survey

QoG Code: ess

• Dataset: European Social Survey - Wave 1-10

Eurostat

QoG Code: eu

• Dataset: Eurostat datasets

Emanuele, Angelucci, Marino, Puleo and Vegetti

QoG Code: evep

• Dataset: Dataset of Electoral Volatility in the European Parliament elections since 1979

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

QoG Code: fao

• Dataset: Aquastat
• Dataset: FAO Land Use Indicators

James D. Fearon

QoG Code: fe

• Dataset: Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country

Fund for Peace

QoG Code: ffp

• Dataset: Fragile States Index

Freedom House

QoG Code: fh

• Dataset: Freedom in the World
• Dataset: Freedom on the Net
• Dataset: Freedom of the Press

Fraser Institute

QoG Code: fi

• Dataset: Economic Freedom of the World Dataset

Guillén and Capron

QoG Code: gc

• Dataset: State Capacity, Minority Shareholder Protections, and Stock Market Development

Transparency International

QoG Code: gcb

• Dataset: Global Corruption Barometer
• Dataset: Corruption Perceptions Index

Gibney, Cornett and Wood

QoG Code: gd

• Dataset: The Political Terror Scale

Global Data Governance Mapping

QoG Code: gdg

• Dataset: Global Data Governance Mapping

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

QoG Code: gea

• Dataset: Global Educational Attainment 1970-2015
• Dataset: Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

GenDip: Gender in Diplomacy

QoG Code: gendip

The GenDip program is led by Professor Ann Towns, Wallenberg Academy Fellow, and consists of a research group at the Department of Political Science of the University of Gothenburg as well as an international research network, the GenDip Network. The program is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Research Council.

• Dataset: The GenDip database on Gender and Diplomatic Representation

IMF Government Finance Statistics

QoG Code: gfs

• Dataset: IMF GFS - Expenditure by Functions of Government (COFOG)

Kristian S. Gleditsch

QoG Code: gle

• Dataset: Expanded Trade and GDP Data

The Growth Lab at Harvard University

QoG Code: glhu

Led by Ricardo Hausmann, the Growth Lab at Harvard's Center for International Development works to understand the dynamics of growth and to translate those insights into more effective policy-making in developing countries. The Growth Lab places increased economic diversity and complexity at the center of the development story and uncovers how countries move into industries that offer increased productivity.

• Dataset: Growth Projections and Complexity Rankings

Bormann and Golder

QoG Code: gol

• Dataset: Democratic Electoral Systems Around the World 1946-2020

Institute for Economics & Peace

QoG Code: gpi

• Dataset: Global Peace Index
• Dataset: Global Terrorism Index

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

QoG Code: gra

• Dataset: Climate Change Laws of the World

Redonda, von Haldenwang and Aliu

QoG Code: gted

The Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED) is led by the Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

• Dataset: Global Tax Expenditure Database

Gerring, Thacker and Moreno

QoG Code: gtm

• Dataset: Centripetal Democratic Governance

Andersson and Brambor

QoG Code: gtr

• Dataset: Financing the State: Government Tax Revenue from 1800 to 2012

Geddes, Wright and Frantz

QoG Code: gwf

• Dataset: Autocratic Regime Data: Autocratic Regimes
• Dataset: Autocratic Regime Data: All Political Regimes

Witold Henisz

QoG Code: h

• Dataset: Political Constraint Index (POLCON) Dataset

Heritage Foundation

QoG Code: hf

• Dataset: Index of Economic Freedom

Hollyer, Rosendorff and Vreeland

QoG Code: hrv

• Dataset: HRV Transparency Project

Wahman, Teorell and Hadenius

QoG Code: ht

• Dataset: The Authoritarian Regime Dataset

HUMAN Surveys

QoG Code: hum

• Dataset: HUMAN Surveys

Institutions and Elections Project

QoG Code: iaep

• Dataset: Institutions and Elections Project Data

International Budget Partnership

QoG Code: ibp

• Dataset: Open Budget Survey data

Brambor, Goenega, Lindvall and Teorell

QoG Code: icd

• Dataset: Information Capacity Dataset

International Country Risk Guide - The PRS Group

QoG Code: icrg

Established in 1979, The PRS Group is the world’s leading quant-driven political and country forecasting and risk rating firm. With its early intellectual roots firmly planted in academe and in joint research with the US State Department and the CIA, the firm now stands alone in the sector by interfacing its longstanding data series with artificial intelligence to produce truly outstanding, predictive results. PRS is also a world leader in the production of corruption risk data and geospatial satellite analysis, and is the only firm of its kind to be recognized by the courts in commercial litigation as authorities in the field.

• Dataset: The International Country Risk Guide (ICRG)

International Centre for Tax and Development and UNU-WIDER

QoG Code: ictd

• Dataset: ICTD/UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset

Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

QoG Code: ideaesd

• Dataset: Electoral System Design
• Dataset: Voter Turnout Database

International Environmental Agreements Database Project

QoG Code: iead

The International Environmental Agreements (IEA) Database Project seeks to foster analysis of international environmental agreements (IEAs) by providing a "single source" repository for most information related to IEAs and the evaluation of their influence. Initiated in 2002, the Database seeks to provide a reliable list of all historic and current IEAs.

• Dataset: International Environmental Agreements Database Project

Mo Ibrahim Foundation

QoG Code: iiag

• Dataset: Ibrahim Index of African Governance

ERCAS European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building

QoG Code: ipi

• Dataset: Index of Public Integrity

Inter-Parliamentary Union

QoG Code: ipu

• Dataset: Inter-Parliamentary Union Data

Emanuele and Marino

QoG Code: ipwe

Vincenzo Emanuele and Bruno Marino

• Dataset: Dataset of ideological polarization in Western Europe

International Social Survey Programme

QoG Code: issp

The ISSP evolved out of pre-existing general social surveys. Its origin was a bilateral collaboration between the respective national studies of National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago and Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden, und Analysen (ZUMA, now part of GESIS-Leibniz Institute of the Social Sciences), in Mannheim, Germany.

• Dataset: The International Social Survey Programme. Environment Module

Center for Systems Science and Engineering

QoG Code: jhu

Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University

• Dataset: COVID-19 Data Repository

Johnson and Wallack

QoG Code: jw

• Dataset: Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote

Aljaz Kuncic

QoG Code: kun

• Dataset: Institutional Quality Dataset

Lenka Dražanová

QoG Code: ld

• Dataset: Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization

LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

QoG Code: lis

• Dataset: Luxembourg Income Study database and the Luxembourg Wealth Study database

Hanson and Sigman

QoG Code: lld

• Dataset: Hanson & Sigman's State Capacity Index

La Porta, López-de-Silanes, Shleifer and Vishny

QoG Code: lp

• Dataset: Data used in the article "The Quality of Government"

Maddison Historical Statistics

QoG Code: mad

• Dataset: Maddison Project Database 2020

Hyde and Marinov

QoG Code: nelda

• Dataset: National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy, Version 6

Pippa Norris

QoG Code: no

• Dataset: Democracy Time-series Data Release 3.0, January 2009

Natural Resource Management Index

QoG Code: nrmi

• Dataset: Natural Resource Management Index data

Nunn and Puga

QoG Code: nunn

• Dataset: Country Ruggedness and Geographical Data (2012)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

QoG Code: oecd

• Dataset: Environmental Policy Stringency Index
• Dataset: Green Growth
• Dataset: Country Statistical Profiles
• Dataset: Environmentally Adjusted Multifactor Productivity
• Dataset: OECD Environment Statistics
• Dataset: Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts (EPEA)
• Dataset: Policy Instruments for the Environment
• Dataset: Exposure to PM2.5 in Countries and Regions

The Ocean Health Index

QoG Code: ohi

• Dataset: The Ocean Health Index Data

Marshall and Gurr

QoG Code: p

• Dataset: Polity V Annual Time-Series, 1800-2018

Garnett, James and MacGregor

QoG Code: pei

• Dataset: Perceptions of Electoral Integrity, (PEI-9.0)

PERCEIVE Survey

QoG Code: per

• Dataset: PERCEIVE Survey

International Renewable Energy Agency

QoG Code: pg

• Dataset: IRENASTAT

Ouattara and Standaert

QoG Code: prp

• Dataset: The Property Rights Protection Index

Persson and Tabellini

QoG Code: pt

• Dataset: The Economic Effects of Constitutions

Feenstra, Inklaar and Timmer

QoG Code: pwt

• Dataset: Penn World Table

Hughes, Paxton, Clayton and Zetterberg

QoG Code: qar

• Dataset: Quota Adoption and Reform over Time (QAROT), Version 1, 1947-2015

Dahlstrom, Teorell, Dahlberg, Hartmann, Lindberg and Nistotskaya

QoG Code: qs

• Dataset: QoG Expert Survey (2014 wave)

Nistotskaya, Dahlberg, Dahlström, Sundström, Axelsson, Dalli & Alvarado Pachon

QoG Code: qs20

• Dataset: QoG Expert Survey (2020 wave)

Philip G. Roeder

QoG Code: r

• Dataset: Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization (ELF) Indices, 1961 and 1985

Davide Romelli

QoG Code: romelli

Davide Romelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, a Research affiliate of IM-TCD (International Macro-TCD) and SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum and a Research fellow of the BAFFI-CAREFIN centre, Bocconi University. Prof. Romelli is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of Finance & Economics.

• Dataset: Data on Central Bank Independence

Michael L Ross

QoG Code: ross

• Dataset: Oil and Gas Data, 1932-2014

Reporters Sans Frontières

QoG Code: rsf

• Dataset: World Press Freedom Index

Borcan, Olsson and Putterman

QoG Code: sai

• Dataset: Extended State History Index

Lyle Scruggs, Jahn Detlaf, and Kati Kuitto

QoG Code: sc

• Dataset: The Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset

O'Reilly and Murphy

QoG Code: sci

Data used in the article: O'Reilly, C. and Murphy, R.H. (2022), An Index Measuring State Capacity, 1789–2018. Economica, 89: 713-745. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12411

• Dataset: O'Reilly & Murphy's State Capacity Index

Elgin and Oztunali

QoG Code: shec

• Dataset: Shadow Economies: Model Based estimates (2012)

Social Policy Indicators (SPIN)

QoG Code: sied

• Dataset: Social Insurance Entitlements dataset (SIED)

Nathan Nunn

QoG Code: slavet

• Dataset: The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades Dataset (2008)

Social Progress Imperative

QoG Code: spi

• Dataset: Social Progress Index

The Political Terror Scale (PTS) project

QoG Code: svs

• Dataset: The Societal Violence Scale

Duane Swank

QoG Code: sw

• Dataset: Comparative Political Parties Dataset

QoG Swedish Agency Database

QoG Code: swedat

This database (Dahlström, Holmgren, Björkdahl, Hazell, Khomenko, Svensson and Åberg, 2018) consists of a comprehensive sample of administrative agencies in the Swedish executive bureaucracy between 1960 and 2014. The data was originally assembled for the project "The Politics of Administrative Design" (financed by the Swedish Research Council through grant 2014-947), which focused on how partisan shifts in government can affect the staff, structure, and process of public bureaucracies.

• Dataset: Swedish Formal Instruction Dataset
• Dataset: Swedish Budget Dataset
• Dataset: Swedish Agency Head Dataset

Dahlström and Tyberg

QoG Code: swm

• Dataset: Politics, Institutions and Services in Swedish Municipalities

World Inequality Lab

QoG Code: top

• Dataset: World Inequality Database

UCDP/PRIO

QoG Code: ucdp

• Dataset: UCDP Dyadic Dataset 23.1

Pemstein, Meserve and Melton

QoG Code: uds

• Dataset: Unified Democracy Scores

United Nations Development Program

QoG Code: undp

• Dataset: The Gender Inequality Index
• Dataset: Human Development Report

UNESCO

QoG Code: une

• Dataset: UNESCO's SDG Global and Thematic Indicators
• Dataset: UNESCO's Other Policy Relevant Indicators (OPRI)
• Dataset: UNESCO's Feature Films and Cinema Data

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division

QoG Code: unim

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs conducts demographic research, supports intergovernmental processes at the United Nations in the area of population and development, and assists countries in developing their capacity to produce and analyse population data and information.

• Dataset: International Migrant Stock 2020

Tatu Vanhanen

QoG Code: van

• Dataset: Measures of Democracy 1810-2018

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project

QoG Code: vdem

• Dataset: Varieties of Democracy Dataset version 13
• Dataset: V-Party Dataset

Jelle Visser

QoG Code: vi

• Dataset: The ICTWSS database version 6.0

The World Bank Group

QoG Code: wbgi

• Dataset: Climate Change Knowledge Portal
• Dataset: Enterprise Surveys
• Dataset: Informal Economy Database
• Dataset: Migration and Remittances Data
• Dataset: The Worldwide Governance Indicators
• Dataset: World Development Indicators
• Dataset: Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators

World Economic Forum

QoG Code: wef

• Dataset: The Global Gender Gap Index 2006-2023
• Dataset: Global Competitiveness Report 2019

Christian Welzel

QoG Code: wel

• Dataset: Data from Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel

Nyrup and Bramwell

QoG Code: wgov

• Dataset: The WhoGov Dataset

World Health Organization

QoG Code: who

• Dataset: Global Health Observatory data repository

World Happiness Report

QoG Code: whr

• Dataset: World Happiness Index

World Justice Project

QoG Code: wjp

• Dataset: Rule of Law Index

World Uncertainty Index

QoG Code: wui

• Dataset: World Uncertainty Index

World Values Survey

QoG Code: wvs

• Dataset: Integrated Values Surveys (WVS/EVS trend 1981-2022)

Sundström and Stockemer

QoG Code: yri

• Dataset: Worldwide Age Representation in Parliaments (WARP) Dataset