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blm.RdContains the trichotomous measure of regime type from K. Bowman, F. Lehoucq, and J. Mahoney. "Measuring Political Democracy: Case Expertise, Data Adequacy, and Central America". In: Comparative Political Studies 38.8 (2005), pp. 939-970. DOI: 10.1177/0010414005277083. http://cps.sagepub.com/content/38/8/939. Data used to be available at http://www.blmdemocracy.gatech.edu/.
blm
blm_pmmAn object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 505 rows and 7 columns.
An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 275 rows and 7 columns.
K. Bowman, F. Lehoucq, and J. Mahoney. "Measuring Political Democracy: Case Expertise, Data Adequacy, and Central America". In: Comparative Political Studies 38.8 (2005), pp. 939-970. DOI: 10.1177/0010414005277083. Data used to be available at http://www.blmdemocracy.gatech.edu/.
The calendar year.
The country name, as in the original dataset. Use
country_name instead. Available only for five Latin American
countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) from
1900 to 2000.
Trichotomous index of democracy. 0 = authoritarian, 0.5 = semidemocratic, 1 = democratic. Available only for five Latin American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) from 1900 to 2000.
The name of the country in the Gleditsch-Ward system of states, or the official name of the entity (for non-sovereign entities and states not in the Gleditsch and Ward system of states) or else a common name for disputed cases that do not have an official name (e.g., Western Sahara, Hyderabad). The Gleditsch and Ward scheme sometimes indicates the common name of the country and (in parentheses) the name of an earlier incarnation of the state: thus, they have Germany (Prussia), Russia (Soviet Union), Madagascar (Malagasy), etc. For details, see Gleditsch, Kristian S. & Michael D. Ward. 1999. "Interstate System Membership: A Revised List of the Independent States since 1816." International Interactions 25: 393-413. The list can be found at http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ksg/statelist.html.
Gleditsch and Ward's numeric country code, from the Gleditsch and Ward list of independent states.
The Correlates of War numeric country code, 2016 version. This differs from Gleditsch and Ward's numeric country code in a few cases. See http://www.correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/state-system-membership for the full list.
Whether the state is "in system" (that is, is
independent and sovereign), according to Gleditsch and Ward, for this
particular date. Matches at the end of the year; so, for example South
Vietnam 1975 is FALSE because, according to Gleditsch and Ward, the
country ended on April 1975 (being absorbed by North Vietnam). It is also
TRUE for dates beyond 2012 for countries that did not end by then, depsite
the fact that the Gleditsch and Ward list has not been updated since.
The blm_pmm version of this data is taken from D. Pemstein, S. A. Meserve, and J. Melton. Replication data for: Democratic Compromise: A Latent Variable Analysis of Ten Measures of Regime Type. 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/PMM. The
original dataset is found in blm. The blm_pmm data only goes back to
1946, but is otherwise identical to the blm data. It is included here for
completeness.
Other democracy:
LIED,
PIPE,
REIGN,
anckar,
anrr,
arat_pmm,
bmr,
bnr,
bollen_pmm,
bti,
doorenspleet,
download_fh_electoral(),
download_fh_full(),
download_fh(),
download_wgi_voice_and_accountability(),
eiu,
extended_uds,
fh_pmm,
gwf_all,
hadenius_pmm,
kailitz,
magaloni,
mainwaring,
munck_pmm,
pacl_update,
pacl,
peps,
pitf,
polityIV,
polity_pmm,
polyarchy_dimensions,
polyarchy,
prc_gasiorowski,
svmdi,
svolik_regime,
uds_2014,
ulfelder,
utip,
vanhanen,
vdem_simple,
wahman_teorell_hadenius
Other PMM replication data:
arat_pmm,
bollen_pmm,
fh_pmm,
hadenius_pmm,
mainwaring,
munck_pmm,
pacl,
polity_pmm,
prc_gasiorowski
Other regional democracy indexes:
mainwaring
Other trichotomous democracy indexes:
kailitz,
mainwaring,
prc_gasiorowski,
utip