Polity II, political structures and regime change, 1800-1986 ICPSR 9263

Analysis of regimes' structural characteristics, institutional changes, and the directionality of changes on underlying dimensions of democracy, autocracy, and power concentrations Nine groups of variables are included in the Polity II data set: spatial-temporal domain / basic authority characteristics of politics / identification of major, abrupt polity change / events immediately preceding-causing polity termination / events signifying polity formation / indicators of democracy, autocracy and state power / institutional adaptability and persistence / central government expenditures, revenues and national accounts / Banks' polity characteristics.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zeg-75ud
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-y7z-g24
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:32404
Provenance
Creator Gurr, T.R., University of Colorado * Boulder, USA (primary investigator)
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor Data development for international research project (research initiator); Gurr, T.R., University of Colorado * Boulder, USA (data collector)
Publication Year 1989
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess; DANS License; https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf
OpenAccess false
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Other
Spatial Coverage Former - contemporary with population over 1 million in the 1980s