Variable: Whether the state was democratic in the year

QoG Code: (chisols_dem)


Dataset: Change in Source of Leader Support

Description:

Coded 1 if the country is democratic, 0 if it is non-democratic, and -88 for transition years (i.e. years that Polity codes as transition years and that the authors have not been able to categorize as democratic or non-democratic according to their coding rules).

Coding rules are available at http://www.chisols.org/uploads/1/1/2/6/11264284/chisolsusermanualv5.0.pdf

Type of variable: Categorical

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-10-20
Last updated by source: 2021-03-15


Categories:

Conflict Political System


Find this variable in:

OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 162
Standard time-series: 175
OECD cross-section: 36
OECD time-series: 38


This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1946 to the year 2018