Democracy scores or indexes

Numerical measures of the degree of democracy in particular countries.

All Democracy Scores Dataset

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

Regime type datasets

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

Regime institutions data

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

Elections data

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

Constitutional data

Data about features of the constitutions of different countries throughout their history.

Mentions of democracy in constitutional documents, V. 1.0

Leader data

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

Personal power data

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

Violence and repression data

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)

Economic and demographic data

Combined GDP dataset

Population of Independent States

A selection from Ross and Mahdavi's Oil and Gas dataset

Summary of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database

Geographic data

Map data, useful for plotting.

World map data, in country-year format, for use with ggplot2.