Country
Colony of what country? (CIA World Factbook)
Confidence in institutions scale
Decentralization scale
Level of decentralization
Percentage of other democracies in region
Percentage of other democracies in region: 5 cats
Is regime a democracy?
Average # of members per district
Number of years since the last regime transition
Government effectiveness scale
Effective number of parliamentary parties
Effective number of parliamentary parties: 3 cats
EU member state (yes/no)
Freedom House rating of democracy (reversed)
Ethnic factionlization (combined linguistic and racial)
Level of ethnic fractionalization: 3 cats
GDP per capita in 10K US$
GDP per capita (US$): 2 cats
GDP per capita (US$): 3 cats
Gender empowerment measure
Gini coefficient: 4 cats
Gini coefficient
High gdp dummy
Year of independence
Nation numerical code
OECD member state (yes/no)
Population ages 65 and above (% of total) 2003 (WB 2004)
Post-materialism
Population, 2003 (World Bank 2004)
Size of country by population (3-categories)
PR system?
Protest activity
Regime types
Region name
Hi_gdp*democ_regime
Sources of data used in this shared database
Predominant religion
Union density
Urban population (% of total) 2003
Percent saying religion "very" important
Vote/vap during 1990s (idea)
Percent women in lower house of parliament, 2005
Year women first enfranchised
Women's suffrage