Measures checks and balances, tenure and stability, identification of party affiliation with government or opposition, and fragmentation of opposition and government parties in the legislature.
Four datasets: 1) Armed Conflict and Intervention, 2) Polity IV: Regime Authority Characteristics and Transitions, 3) State Fragility Index and Matrix, and 4) Conflict in India. Time period: varies by dataset. Mostly post-WWII, but Polity IV starts in 1800.
Gender and party affiliation, on cabinet members in July every year in the period 1966-2016 in all countries with a population of more than 400,000 citizens.
Economic data by country and year, including International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), and Government Finance Statistics (GFS) databases. IMF data is also available via UKDS.Stat.
Ranks of countries according to business environment, infrastructure, health, technological readiness, and other factors that impact economic growth and prosperity.
Also referred to as B.R. Mitchell, these are print compilations of economic data series, dating back to 1750. You can get an idea of what is included by looking at the online table of contents.
Data on values and beliefs through cross-national and time-series surveys covering almost 100 societies. 1981 to present.
Representative national samples of each society are interviewed, using a standardized questionnaire that measures support for democracy, tolerance to foreigners and ethnic minorities, support for gender equality, the role of religion and changing levels of religiosity, the impact of globalization, attitudes toward the environment, work, family, politics, national identity, culture, diversity, insecurity, subjective well-being, and etc.
Cross-national survey on support for gender equality, among many other cultural values.
Representative national samples of each society are interviewed, using a standardized questionnaire that measures support for democracy, tolerance to foreigners and ethnic minorities, support for gender equality, the role of religion and changing levels of religiosity, the impact of globalization, attitudes toward the environment, work, family, politics, national identity, culture, diversity, insecurity, subjective well-being, and etc.
For those countries that have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (the U.S. not among them), reports on how the convention has been implemented.
Gender and party affiliation, on cabinet members in July every year in the period 1966-2016 in all countries with a population of more than 400,000 citizens.
Measures policies to integrate migrants in all EU Member States, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA.