Variable: Political System Type

QoG Code: (wel_sys)

Dataset: Data from Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel

Description:

Meaning: 4-fold system typology derived from cross-tabulating democratic rights and honest governance.
Source: Alexander and Welzel (2011); Alexander, Inglehart and Welzel (2012). Categorization is available in annual measures for most countries of the world from 1996 to 2006.

1. "Unbound Autocracy'': both democratic rights and honest governance below their scale midpoints
2. "Bounded Autocracy'': democratic rights below, honest governance above the scale midpoint
3. "Ineffective Democracy'': democratic rights above, honest governance below the scale midpoint
4. "Effective Democracy'': both democratic rights and honest governance above the scale midpoint.

Note: In the original data there exists two different observations for Dominica, the value has been recoded to missing for this country.

Type of variable: Categorical

Last updated by source: 2014-03-01

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Dataset	No. Countries
Standard time-series:	189
OECD time-series:	35