Variable: Constitutional Court

QoG Code: (iaep_cc)


Dataset: Institutions and Elections Project Data

Description:

According to the constitution, does the country have a national constitutional court? In some cases, a council with the powers of a constitutional court may exist, though it may not be part of the formal judiciary. In such cases, this non-judicial council with the powers of a constitutional court is coded as the constitutional court.

  1. No
  2. Yes

Source: IAEP (Wig et al., 2015)

Type of variable: Binary

Downloaded by QoG on: 2024-11-13
Last updated by source: 2015-05-20


Categories:

Political System Judicial


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Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 0
Basic time-series: 166
Standard time-series: 166
OECD time-series: 30

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1960-2012
Basic time-series: 1960-2012
OECD time-series: 1960-2012

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