Variable: Regime Type

QoG Code: (ht_regtype)


Dataset: The Authoritarian Regime Dataset

Description:

This typology of authoritarian regimes is based on a distinction between three modes of political power maintenance (probably the three most widely used throughout history): hereditary succession (lineage), corresponding to monarchies; the actual or threatened use of military force, corresponding to military regimes; and popular elections, designating electoral regimes. Among the latter we distinguish among no-party regimes (where all parties are prohibited), one-party regimes (where all but one party is prohibited), and limited multiparty regimes (where multiple parties are allowed but the system still does not pass as democratic); a subtype of these regimes where no parties are present, although not being prohibited, are coded as "partyless'' regimes. A subtype of military regimes are coded "rebel regimes'', where a rebel movement has taken power by military means. We also code hybrids (or amalgams) combining elements from more than one regime type, as well as several minor types of regimes: "theocracies'', "transitional'' regimes, "civil war'', foreign "occupation'', and a residual "other'' category. Using the mean of the Freedom House and Polity scales (fh_ipolity2), the line between democracies and autocracies is drawn at 7.5. This threshold value was chosen by estimating the mean cutoff point separating democracy from autocracy in five well-known categorical measures of democracy: those of Przeworski et al. (2000), Mainwaring et al. (2001), and Reich (2002), together with Freedom House's and Polity's own categorical thresholds for democracy.

  1. Limited Multiparty
  2. Partyless
  3. No-Party
  4. Military
  5. Military No-Party
  6. Military Multiparty
  7. Military One-party
  8. One-Party
  9. Other
  10. One-Party Monarchy
  11. Monarchy
  12. Rebel Regime
  13. Civil War
  14. Occupation
  15. Theocracy
  16. Transitional Regime
  17. No-Party Monarchy
  18. Multiparty Monarchy
  19. Multiparty-Occupied
  20. Democracy

Type of variable: Categorical

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Categories:

Political System


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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: 199
Standard time-series: 199
OECD time-series: 39

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

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