Variable: Democracy

QoG Code: (chga_demo)


Dataset: Classification of Political Regimes

Description:

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 outside of regime front, there are multiple parties within the legislature, and there has been no consolidation of incumbent advantage (e.g. unconstitutional closing of the lower house or extension of incumbent's term by postponing of subsequent elections). Transition years are coded as the regime that emerges in that year.

  1. No Democracy
  2. Democracy

Type of variable: Binary

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-10-19
Last updated by source: 2010-09-13


Categories:

Political System


Find this variable in:

Basic Time-series - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic time-series: 206
Standard time-series: 206
OECD time-series: 40

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1946-2008
Basic time-series: 1946-2008
OECD time-series: 1946-2008

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This variable has information from the year 1946 to the year 2008