Variable: Appointment of Regional Representatives

QoG Code: (iaep_arr)


Dataset: Institutions and Elections Project Data

Description:

This variable examine the relationship between the central and regional governments, those which are immediately below the central government. We focus exclusively on states or provincial levels of government, municipalities are not coded. In practice, do regions or provinces:

  1. Appoint, elect or otherwise choose their own representatives autonomous from decisions by the central government
  2. Have their administrators appointed by the central government
  3. No regional/provincial governments

Source: IAEP (Wig et al., 2015)

Type of variable: Categorical

Downloaded by QoG on: 2025-12-27
Last updated by source: 2015-05-20


Categories:

Political System


Find this variable in:

OECD Time-series - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 166
OECD time-series: 30


This variable has information for these countries:

Click here to see the full list of countries



This variable has information from the year 1960 to the year 2012