Package index • democracyData

Democracy Datasets

Datasets with measures of democracy.

anckar: The Anckar-Fredriksson dataset of political regimes

anrr: The Acemoglu, Naidu, Restrepo and Robinson democracy dataset

arat_pmm arat: The Arat measure of democracy

blm blm_pmm: The Bowman, Lehoucq, and Mahoney index of democracy for Central America

bmr: Boix-Miller-Rosato dichotomous coding of democracy, 1800-2020, version 4.0

bnr bnr_extended: The Bernhard, Nordstrom & Reenock Event History Coding of Democratic Breakdowns

bollen_pmm: The Bollen measure of democracy

bti: The Bertelsmann Transformation Index

doorenspleet: Renske Doorenspleet's Democracy Dataset

eiu: The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index

extended_uds: Extended UDS

fh_pmm fh: Freedom House "Freedom in the World" data

gwf_all gwf_all_extended gwf_autocratic gwf_autocratic_extended: The Geddes Wright and Frantz Autocratic Regimes dataset

hadenius_pmm: Axel Hadenius' Index of Democracy

kailitz: The Steffen Kailitz Dataset of Authoritarian Regime Types

LIED: The Lexical Index of Democracy, v. 6.8

magaloni magaloni_extended: Autocracies of the World, 1950-2012 (Version 1.0).

mainwaring mainwaring_pmm: Mainwaring, Brinks, and Perez Liñán's democracy measure for Latin America

munck_pmm: Munck Index of Democracy

pacl aclp() dd() cgv() pacl_pmm: The Democracy and Dictatorship Dataset (DD/PACL/ACLP/CGV)

pacl_update aclp_update() dd_update() cgv_update(): Update of the Democracy and Dictatorship Dataset by Bjørnskov and Rode

peps: Participation-Enhanced Polity Score

PIPE: The Political Institutions and Political Events (PIPE) dataset

pitf pitf_p4: PITF democracy indicator

polityIV: Polity IV

polity_pmm: Polity 2 from PMM

polyarchy polyarchy_pmm: The Polyarchy Scale and the Contestation Scale

polyarchy_dimensions: Indicators of Contestation and Inclusiveness by Michael Coppedge, Angel Alvarez, and Claudia Maldonado

prc_gasiorowski prc_pmm: The Political Regime Change (PRC) dataset.

REIGN: The Rulers, Elections, and Irregular Governance Dataset (Regime data)

svmdi svmdi_2016: Suport Vector Machine Democracy Index by Grundler and Krieger

svolik_regime: Milan Svolik's Regime Dataset

uds_2014 uds_2011 uds_2010: The Unified Democracy Scores

ulfelder ulfelder_extended: The Democracy/Autocracy Dataset by Jay Ulfelder

utip: The University of Texas Inequality Project Categorical Dataset of Political Regimes

vanhanen vanhanen_pmm: Vanhanen measures of democracy, 1800-2018

vaporeg: The Varieties of Political Regimes (VaPoReg) dataset

vdem_simple: Simplified version of the V-Dem version 14 dataset

wahman_teorell_hadenius: Authoritarian Regimes Data Set, version 5.0, by Axel Hadenius, Jan Teorell, & Michael Wahman

Download_ functions

Functions for downloading annually-updated datasets.

download_fh(): Freedom House "Freedom in the World" data

download_fh_electoral(): Freedom House Electoral Democracies List

download_fh_full(): Freedom House All Data 2013-2024

download_polity_annual(): Polity 5

download_wgi_voice_and_accountability(): Democracy, Voice, and Accountability Index from the World Governance Indicators

Redownload_ functions

Functions for re-downloading other datasets.

redownload_blm() redownload_anckar() redownload_bmr() redownload_gwf() redownload_lied() redownload_vaporeg() redownload_pacl() redownload_peps() redownload_utip() redownload_wahman_teorell_hadenius() redownload_polyarchy_original() redownload_polyarchy_dimensions() redownload_magaloni() redownload_svmdi() redownload_uds() redownload_ulfelder() redownload_pipe() redownload_polityIV() redownload_bti() redownload_pacl_update() redownload_reign(): Download and process various democracy datasets.

Generate_ functions

Functions for generating other democracy datasets.

generate_democracy_scores_dataset(): Generate a data frame containing all the democracy measures accessible from this package

generate_extended_uds(): Generates the extended UDS scores from the latest democracy data in this package

Latent Variable Models functions

Functions for producing latent variable models of democracy.

prepare_democracy_data(): Prepare democracy data before replicating the UDS model

prob_more(): Probability that a country-year is more democratic than another

democracy_scores(): Extract UD scores from a UD model

cutpoints(): Extract cutpoints from a UD model in a tidy format.

raterinfo(): Extract rater info from a UD model in a tidy format.

Information functions

Functions and datasets with citation and other info about the datasets in this package.

bibliography: References to all the datasets included in this package.

cite_dataset(): Retrieve the citation for a specific dataset included in this package

democracy_info: Basic information about existing democracy measures

State system functions

Functions for manipulating and fixing country-year panels with state system information.

country_year_coder(): Country-Year State System Coding

create_panel(): Create a panel of countries belonging in the state system.

Utility functions

Utility functions for working with country-year democracy data.

remove_empty_rows(): Removes empty rows (rows with all NAs) from a data frame

count_sequence_breaks(): Count sequence breaks