Variable: Level of Democracy (Freedom House/Imputed Polity)

QoG Code: (ht_ipolity2)


Dataset: The Authoritarian Regime Dataset

Description:

Imputed average Polity [original variable revpol2] & Freedom House [original variable fhadd] scores (scaled 0–10), where missing values have been imputed by regressing the fhpol index on the Freedom House scores [original variable fhadd], which have better country coverage than Polity2 Countries with an ifhpol score larger than 7.0 are coded as democracies.

This variable replaces the variable previously called fh_ipolity2.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2022-09-05
Last updated by source: 2017-08-10


Categories:

Quality of Government


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: 200
Standard time-series: 200
OECD time-series: 39

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1972-2014
Basic time-series: 1972-2014
OECD time-series: 1972-2014

This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1972 to the year 2014