Gilbert POLS 102 Spring 2024: Country Assignment #4

Classification of political regimes as democracy and dictatorship. Classification of democracies as parliamentary, semi-presidential (mixed) and presidential. Classification of dictatorships as military, civilian and royal.

Measures various indices of political freedom around the world. Separate reports on democracy, press freedom, and internet freedom are also available.

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

Annual Polity scores have been plotted for each of the 167 countries currently covered by the Polity V data series for the period 1800-2018.

(Some V-dem indicators go back to 1789 until the present). V-dem has 5 indices of democracy’s quality. The first index (electoral democracy) is required for the resulting 4 entitled: liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian. Conceptually electoral democracy is equivalent to Dahl’s classic formulation.

The V-Dem codebook is vast! The following pages are most crucial to understand their measures: Page 37, Pages 43-56. You can then use the search function by individual variable names to look at how individual variables are scaled and coded. https://www.v-dem.net/static/website/img/refs/codebookv111.pdf

To easily look up countries and graph them without downloading the large dataset (not to select the original scale to interpret these graphs): https://www.v-dem.net/graphing/graphing-tools/

See also page 40 of the following report: https://www.v-dem.net/documents/29/V-dem_democracyreport2023_lowres.pdf
To read more about the Regimes of the World classification system used in some of V-dem’s work: Regimes of the World (RoW) .pdf

A comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities. Older editions can be found at this site.

An authoritative reference work, providing a wealth of detailed information on the political, economic and commercial institutions of the world. Last edition available is 2011.

Each volume provides a vast range of background material, statistics, directory information and expert analysis of the social, political and economic situation for each of the individual countries within that region.

Each volume provides a vast range of background material, statistics, directory information and expert analysis of the social, political and economic situation for each of the individual countries within that region.

Each volume provides a vast range of background material, statistics, directory information and expert analysis of the social, political and economic situation for each of the individual countries within that region.

Each volume provides a vast range of background material, statistics, directory information and expert analysis of the social, political and economic situation for each of the individual countries within that region.

Each volume provides a vast range of background material, statistics, directory information and expert analysis of the social, political and economic situation for each of the individual countries within that region.

Selections of key economic statistics by country. They include a wide range of internationally comparable indicators allowing users to assess and compare countries.

The HDI was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living.

Measures various indices of political freedom around the world. Separate reports on democracy, press freedom, and internet freedom are also available.

Annual Polity scores have been plotted for each of the 167 countries currently covered by the Polity V data series for the period 1800-2018.

Timely and thorough coverage of political controversies and political parties.

Combines political, economic and social indicators to measure the fragility of nations around the world, 2006-present.

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.

Information on national elections around the world, subnational elections of high interest,
political parties and candidates, referendum provisions, news on election-related laws and developments, political institutions and electoral systems, election results and voter turnout.

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.

A global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Pew Research Center studies public attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. The Center's main purpose is to serve as a forum for ideas on the media and public policy through its research.

Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy, and society.

The largest repository of publicly available data on citizens' views in the Middle East and North Africa.

The ABS is an applied research program that aims to gauge public opinion across Asia on issues such as political values, democracy, and governance.

The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since its establishment in 2001.

Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 20,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 600 million inhabitants.

Civil society participation index appears as an indicator in the V-Dem graphic tool.

This page contains numerous sources for measuring civil society in countries around the world (especially in the tab labelled "Country Research and Datasets)."