Numerical measures of the degree of democracy in particular countries.
Extended Unified Democracy Scores (UDS)
The Lexical Index of Democracy, v. 3
Selection from the POLITY IV dataset
A selection of indexes from the V-Dem dataset, version 6.1
Qualitative judgments about the type of regime in particular countries.
Selection from the Geddes, Wright, and Frantz Autocratic Regimes dataset
Selection from the Geddes, Wright, and Frantz Autocratic Regimes dataset
Selection from the Geddes, Wright, and Frantz Autocratic Regimes dataset
The Steffen Kailitz Dataset of Authoritarian Regime Types
Selection from the Autocracies of the World dataset v. 1.0
Selection from the Autocracies of the World dataset v. 1.0
A selection from the Authoritarian Regimes Data Set, v. 5.0
Information about particular regime institutions in different countries.
The Lexical Index of Democracy, v. 3
Selection from the Political Institutions and Political Events (PIPE) dataset
Selection from the POLITY IV dataset
Milan Svolik's Institutions in Dictatorship Dataset
Information about elections in most countries of the world throughout their history.
A list of all elections in both the NELDA and the PIPE datasets.
The NELDA v.4 dataset (selection)
Selection from the Political Institutions and Political Events (PIPE) dataset
Data about features of the constitutions of different countries throughout their history.
Mentions of democracy in constitutional documents, V. 1.0
Information about the effective leaders of different regimes since the last century.
The Archigos dataset of political regimes, v. 4.1
Milan Svolik's Leaders in Dictatorship Dataset
Measures of the degree of personal power of particular leaders in different regimes since the last century.
Latent variable index of personalism, v. 1.0
Data about war, state violence, and anti-regime campaigns in different regimes.
List of War Participants by Gleditsch.
Fariss latent variable index of repression
List of Interstate War Dyads by Gleditsch
Selection from the NAVCO dataset v. 2.0
Powell-Thyne coup data (V2015.09.30)
Population of Independent States
A selection from Ross and Mahdavi's Oil and Gas dataset
Summary of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database
Map data, useful for plotting.
World map data, in country-year format, for use with ggplot2.