Gilbert POLS 102 Spring 2024: Country Assignment #3

The world's consitutions to read, search and compare.

Lists presidential, parliamentary, semipresidential, monarchical, and other regimes.

The Electoral System Design Database is comprised of various reviews of the electoral legislation of countries from around the world. The database research was sourced from national legal documents from different sources, including the official web portals of governments, regional organizations that work in the area of democracy and electoral processes, and research institutes specialized in the area of elections and politics in general.

The Electoral Systems Encyclopedia topic focuses on the design, mechanisms, and effects of different electoral systems on national, local and supranational levels. It identifies, describes and classifies 12 distinct electoral systems and discusses their relationship with the larger institutional framework as well as their impact on administrative issues.

The CSES is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. Participating countries and provinces include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district and macro/electoral system variables.

The PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 270 parliamentary chambers in all of the 193 countries where a national legislature exists.

Dataset informing the book How Dictatorships Work by Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, and Erica Frantz.