Legal Origin

QoG code: lp_legor

Legal origin: Identifies the legal origin of the Company Law or Commercial code of each country. There are five possible origins:

  1. English Common Law
  2. French Commercial Code
  3. Socialist/Communist Laws
  4. German Commercial Code
  5. Scandinavian Commercial Code

Dataset
Data used in the article "The Quality of Government"
Type of variable
Categorical
Last updated by source
1999-04-30

Categories

Judicial History

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Original dataset
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 153
Standard time-series 157
OECD time-series 30