bmr: Boix-Miller-Rosato dichotomous coding of democracy,...

In xmarquez/PoliticalDatasets: Loads cleaned up versions of political data and offers a range of utility functions to fix them up

Description

A dataset containing the Boix-Miller-Rosato dichotomous coding of democracy, used in the paper "A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800-2007" https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/BMR-PolRegimes.pdf?attredirects=0. The complete codebook is available here: https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/data.

Usage

bmr

Format

A data frame with 17632 rows and 17 variables:

country

The country name

ccode

COW code

abbreviation

World Bank 3-letter code

year

Year

democracy

Dichotomous democracy measure

sovereign

Dichotomous indicator of sovereignty/independence (if 0, democracy is NA)

democracy_trans

-1 if democratic breakdown, 0 if no change, 1 if democratic transition

democracy_breakdowns

Previous number of democratic breakdowns

democracy_duration

Consecutive years of current regime type

democracy_omitteddata

This is the same measure as democracy, except it records an NA for countries occupied during an international war (e.g., the Netherlands 1940-44) or experiencing state collapse during a civil war (e.g., Lebanon 1976-89). The democracy variable instead fills in these years as continuations of the same regime type.

Source

https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/data

xmarquez/PoliticalDatasets documentation built on May 4, 2019, 1:24 p.m.