A dataset containing the Participation-Enhanced Polity score described in B. E. Moon, J. H. Birdsall, S. Ciesluk, et al. "Voting Counts: Participation in the Measurement of Democracy". In: Studies in Comparative International Development 41.2 (2006), pp. 3-32. DOI: 10.1007/BF02686309. The complete dataset is available at http://www.lehigh.edu/~bm05/democracy/Obtain_data.htm. The documentation below is based on the information in that website.
Source
B. E. Moon, J. H. Birdsall, S. Ciesluk, et al. "Voting Counts: Participation in the Measurement of Democracy". In: Studies in Comparative International Development 41.2 (2006), pp. 3-32. DOI: 10.1007/BF02686309.
Details
- peps_ccode
COW code, as used by the PEPS dataset.
- year
Year.
- polity1raw
Raw Polity1 score with missing data included, directly from Polity.
- Polity1
Clean Polity1, irregular codes defined as missing data.
- Polity2
Clean Polity2, irregular codes defined as missing data.
- Polity3
Clean Preferred Polity score.
- Pdemocracy
Clean Polity democracy, irregular codes defined as missing data.
- Pautocracy
Clean Polity autocracy, irregular codes defined as missing data.
- FHfree
Sum of Freedom House polrights & civliberties, perfect score is 12.
- toI
IDEA Votes/Voting age population. n = 4966, missing = 11437.
- toV
Vanhanen votes/two-thirds of Vanhanen population. n = 14441, missing = 1962.
- toQ
(mostly)IDEA votes/Voting age population, with participation coded zero for noncompetitive elections. n = 8010, missing = 8393.
- PEPS1i
PEPS1, using toI. n = 9163, missing = 7240.
- PEPS2i
PEPS2, using toI. n = 4125, missing = 12278.
- PEPS1q
PEPS1, using toQ. n = 9439, missing = 6964.
- PEPS2q
PEPS2, using toQ. n = 6890, missing = 9513.
- PEPS1v
PEPS1, using toV. n = 14090, missing = 2313.
- PEPS2v
PEPS2, using toV. n = 13241, missing = 3162.
- pop
Population in thousands, Penn World Tables.
- rgdpch
Real per capita GDP, chain method, Penn World Tables.
- suffrage
Legal suffrage as percent of Voting age population, from Paxton and Bollen.
- cv
Compulsory voting. Coded as 4=strongly enforced,3=weakly enforced,2=NA,1=not enforced,0=none. Source: IDEA.
- peps_country
The country names found in the original data. these had to be fixed - lots of them were blank.
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,
bollen_pmm,
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,
pitf,
polityIV,
polity_pmm,
polyarchy,
polyarchy_dimensions,
prc_gasiorowski,
svmdi,
svolik_regime,
uds_2014,
ulfelder,
utip,
vanhanen,
vaporeg,
vdem_simple,
wahman_teorell_hadenius
Other continuous indexes of democracy:
polyarchy_dimensions
Other polity:
pitf