Polity III: Regime Type and Political Authority, 1800-1994

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Principal Investigator(s): Jaggers, Keith; Gurr, Ted Robert

Summary: This dataset, a modified and updated version of POLITY II: POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND REGIME CHANGE, 1800-1986 (ICPSR 9263), focuses on indicators of political authority and regime type for 177 members of the international system. Variables include two indicators of regime type (autocracy and democracy) and eight indicators of political authority (regulation of executive recruitment, competitiveness of executive recruitment, openness of executive recruitment, monocratism, constraints ... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06695.v2

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