Reference

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	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	Freedom House "Freedom in the World" data from Pemstein, Meserve, and Melton's replication dataset
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. 6.4
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 pacl_pmm	The Democracy and Dictatorship Dataset (DD/PACL/ACLP/CGV)
pacl_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
vdem_simple	Simplified version of the V-Dem version 13 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 2013-2023
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_lied()	Downloads the 2022 update (v. 6.4) of the Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy (annual time series, data to 2021) and processes it using country_year_coder.
redownload_polityIV()	Downloads the 2019 update of the Polity IV dataset
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