0-100 index of democracy from K. A. Bollen. Cross-National Indicators of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990. 2001. DOI: 10.3886/ICPSR02532.v2. Original data available at https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/2532/publications. 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. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/WWYOHU.
Source
K. Bollen and P. Paxton. "Subjective Measures of Liberal Democracy". In: Comparative Political Studies 33.1 (2000), pp. 58-86. DOI: 10.1177/0010414000033001003.
K. A. Bollen. Cross-National Indicators of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990. 2001. DOI: 10.3886/ICPSR02532.v2. Original data available at https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/2532/publications. 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. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/WWYOHU.
Variables
- original_country
The country name, as in the PMM dataset. Use
extended_country_nameinstead if you want a consistent name.- year
The calendar year.
- bollen_pmm
Democracy index. Ranges from 0 to 100.
Standard descriptive variables (generated by this package)
- extended_country_name
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.
- GWn
Gleditsch and Ward's numeric country code, from the Gleditsch and Ward list of independent states.
- cown
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.
- in_GW_system
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
FALSEbecause, according to Gleditsch and Ward, the country ended on April 1975 (being absorbed by North Vietnam). It is alsoTRUEfor 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.
See also
Other democracy:
LIED,
PIPE,
REIGN,
anckar,
anrr,
arat_pmm,
blm,
bmr,
bnr,
bti,
doorenspleet,
download_fh(),
download_fh_electoral(),
download_fh_full(),
download_wgi_voice_and_accountability(),
eiu,
extended_uds,
fh_pmm,
gwf_all,
hadenius_pmm,
kailitz,
magaloni,
mainwaring,
munck_pmm,
pacl,
pacl_update,
peps,
pitf,
polityIV,
polity_pmm,
polyarchy,
polyarchy_dimensions,
prc_gasiorowski,
svmdi,
svolik_regime,
uds_2014,
ulfelder,
utip,
vanhanen,
vaporeg,
vdem_simple,
wahman_teorell_hadenius
Other PMM replication data:
arat_pmm,
blm,
fh_pmm,
hadenius_pmm,
mainwaring,
munck_pmm,
pacl,
polity_pmm,
prc_gasiorowski
Other continuous democracy indexes:
arat_pmm,
bti,
download_wgi_voice_and_accountability(),
eiu,
hadenius_pmm,
munck_pmm,
svmdi,
vanhanen,
vdem_simple