Regime Institutions
0 = 0. Parliamentary democracy
1 = 1. Mixed (semi-presidential) democracy
2 = 2. Presidential democracy
3 = 3. Civilian dictatorship
4 = 4. Military dictatorship
5 = 5. Royal dictatorship

Electoral System Type-11 classes
1 = Single-Member-District-Plurality (SMDP)
2 = Two-Round System (TRS)
3 = Alternative Vote (AV)
4 = Borda Count (BC)
5 = Block Vote (BV)
6 = Party Block Vote (PBV)
7 = Limited Vote (LV)
8 = Single Nontransferable Vote (SNTV)
9 = List Proportional Representation (List PR)
10 = Single Transferable Vote (STV)
11 = Mixed Dependent (or Mixed Member Proportional)
12 = Mixed Independent (or Mixed Parallel)

Colonial Origin
0 = 0. Never colonized by a Western overseas colonial power
1 = 1. Dutch
2 = 2. Spanish
3 = 3. Italian
4 = 4. US
5 = 5. British
6 = 6. French
7 = 7. Portuguese
8 = 8. Belgian
9 = 9. British-French
10 = 10. Australian

Other Financial Advantages to Encourage Gender Equality in Political Parties
0 = No
1 = Yes
2 = Not Applicable
3 = Sometimes

Electoral System for National Legislature
1 = List PR
2 = BV
3 = PBV
4 = FPTP
5 = TRS
6 = MMP
7 = STV
8 = AV
9 = SNTV
10 = SNTV/List PR
11 = LV/BV
12 = FPTP/BV
13 = FPTP/PBV
14 = FPTP/SNTV
15 = PBV/List PR/FPTP
16 = Parallel
17 = Transition
18 = Modified BC
19 = N
20 = Unspecified

Electoral System Design
1 = PR
2 = Plurality/Majority
3 = Mixed
4 = Transition
5 = Other
6 = Unspecified
7 = Not applicable

Ban on Anonymous Donations to Candidates
0 = No
1 = Yes
2 = Regular Limits Applies

Regime Type
1 = 1. Limited Multiparty
2 = 2. Partyless
3 = 3. No-Party
4 = 4. Military
5 = 5. Military No-Party
6 = 6. Military Multiparty
7 = 7. Military One-Party
8 = 8. One-Party
9 = 9. Other
16 = 16. One-Party Monarchy
17 = 17. Monarchy
18 = 18. Rebel Regime
19 = 19. Civil War
20 = 20. Occupation
21 = 21. Theocracy
22 = 22. Transitional Regime
23 = 23. No-Party Monarchy
24 = 24. Multiparty Monarchy
100 = 100. Democracy

Electoral System Type-3 classes
1 = Majoritarian
2 = Proportional
3 = Mixed

Chief Executive Party Orientation
1 = Right
2 = Center
3 = Left

Electoral System for the President
1 = TRS
2 = TRS +'L'
3 = List PR
4 = FPTP
5 = SV
6 = STV
7 = FPTP/BV
8 = Transition
9 = Indirectly elected (by Parliament/Assembly/Legislature)
10 = Other
11 = Not Applicable

Electoral Rule House
0 = PR
1 = Plurality

Political System
0 = Presidential
1 = Assembly-Elected President
2 = Parliamentary

1 = Democracy
2 = Foreign-Occupied
3 = Not Independent
4 = Provisional
5 = Warlord
6 = Warlord/Foreign-Occupied

Legal origin
1 = 1. English Common Law
2 = 2. French Commercial Code
3 = 3. Socialist/Communist Laws
4 = 4. German Commercial Code
5 = 5. Scandinavian Commercial Code

Status
1 = Free
2 = Partly Free
3 = Not Free

Democracy
0 = 0. Dictatorship
1 = 1. Democracy

Checks and Balances
-999 = NA

The Region of the Country
1 = 1. Eastern Europe and post Soviet Union
2 = 2. Latin America
3 = 3. North Africa & the Middle East
4 = 4. Sub-Saharan Africa
5 = 5. Western Europe and North America
6 = 6. East Asia
7 = 7. South-East Asia
8 = 8. South Asia
9 = 9. The Pacific
10 = 10. The Caribbean

State Government
0 = No local elections
1 = Legislature locally elected
2 = Legislature and executive locally elected

Regime Type
1 = (Pure) Autocracy
2 = Inclusive Autocracy
3 = Liberal Autocracy
4 = (Minimal) Democracy

PR Type
1 = Single-Member-District-Plurality (SMDP)
2 = Two Round Majority-Plurality
3 = Two Round Qualified Majority
4 = Two Round Majority Runoff
5 = Alternative Vote (AV)
6 = Borda Count (BC)
7 = Modified Borda Count (mBC)
8 = Block Vote (BV)
9 = Party Block Vote (PBV)
10 = Limited Vote (LV)
11 = Single Nontransferable Vote (SNTV)
12 = Hare quota
13 = Hare quota with largest remainders
14 = Hare quota with highest average remainders
15 = Hagenbach-Bischoff quota
16 = Hagenbach-Bischoff quota with largest remainders
17 = Hagenbach-Bischoff quota with highest average remainders
18 = Droop quota
19 = Droop quota with largest remainders
20 = Droop quota with highest average remainders
21 = Imperiali quota
22 = Imperiali quota with largest remainders
23 = Imperiali quota with highest average remainders
24 = Reinforced Imperiali quota
25 = D’Hondt
26 = Sainte-Laguë
27 = Modified Sainte-Laguë
28 = Single Transferable Vote

Institution
1 = Parliamentary democracy
2 = Semi-presidential democracy
3 = Presidential democracy
4 = Civilian dictatorship
5 = Military dictatorship
6 = Royal dictatorship

Regime Type (Collapsed)
1 = 1. Monarchy
2 = 2. Military
3 = 3. One Party
4 = 4. Multi-Party
9 = 9. No-Party
99 = 99. Other
100 = 100. Democracy

Scalezone on Citizen Rights
1 = Complete Autocracy
2 = Incomplete Autocracy
3 = Incomplete Democracy
4 = Complete Democracy