Variable: Unitary or Federal State

QoG Code: (iaep_ufs)


Dataset: Institutions and Elections Project Data

Description:

This variable examines 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. Is the government structure a:

  1. Unitary system
  2. Confederation
  3. Federal system

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:

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

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
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