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
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| Dataset | No. Countries |
|---|---|
| Standard time-series: | 166 |
| OECD time-series: | 30 |