1. Wave 1
2. Wave 2
3. Wave 3
4. Wave 4
5. Wave 5
0. Not a presidential regim
1. Presidential regime
0. No federal structure
1. Federal structure
1. Hare
2. Droop
3. Imperiali
4. Reinforced Imperiali
5. Modified Hare
6. d'Hondt
7. Saint-Lague
8. Modified Saint-Lague
9. STV
-88. Transition periods
-77. Interregnum periods
-66. Interruption periods
1. Unregulated
2. Designational/Transitional
3. Regulated
0. Not Applicable
1. Closed
2. Dual Executive-Designation
3. Dual Executive-Election
4. Open
1. Selection
2. Dual/Transitional
3. Election
2. Multiple Identities
3. Sectarian
4. Restricted
5. Regulated
1. Repressed
2. Supressed
3. Factional
4. Transitional
5. Competitive
0. No overt fragmentation
1. Slight fragmentation
2. Moderate fragmentation
3. Serious fragmentation
0. Confident
1. Tentative
2. Tenuous
1. Linked
2. Unlinked
1. Coexistence, indep.
2. Superposition, indep.
3. Fusion, indep.
4. Correction, dep.
5. Conditional, dep.
1. Plurality
2. Absolute maj
3. Qualified maj
4. Limited vote
5. Alternative vote
6. SNTV
7. Modified Borda
0. Male leader
1. Female leader
1. Role of Government I
2. Social Inequality I
3. Work Orientations I
4. Role of Government II
5. Religion I
6. Social Inequality II
7. Environment I
8. Role of Government III
9. Religion II
10. Social Inequality III
11. Environment II
12. Citizenship
0. Parliamentary system
1. President or collegial executive
0. No judicial review
1. Judicial review
0. None or infrequent referenda
1. Frequent referenda
0. Not federal
1. Weak federalism
2. Strong federalism
0. Proportional representation
1. Modified proportional representation
2. Single member, simple plurality systems
0. No or very weak second chamber
1. Weak bicameralism
2. Strong bicameralism
1. Eastern Europe and post Soviet Union
2. Latin America
3. North Africa & the Middle East
4. Sub-Saharan Africa
5. Western Europe and North America
6. East Asia
7. South-East Asia
8. South Asia
9. The Pacific
10. The Caribbean
0. Majoritarian or Preferential vote
1. Mixed-member majority or Bloque vote
2. Closed-list-PR
0. Presidential
1. Semi-Presidential
2. Parliamentary
0. No runoff
1. Runoff
0. Democracy
1. Dictatorship
2. Absolute majority
3. Qualified majority
4. Electoral college
5. Single transferable vote (STV)
0. Dictatorship
1. Parliamentary Democracy
2. Mixed Democracy
3. Presidential Democracy
1. Majoritarian
2. Proportional
3. Mixed
3. Multi-tier
4. Mixed
1. Free
2. Partly Free
3. Not Free
1. Round 1
2. Round 2
3. Round 3
1. Mannheim Trend File
2. Standard Eurobarometer
3. CCEB (Candidate Countries Eurobarometer)
4. CEEB (Central and Eastern Eurobarometer Trend File)
5. Mannheim Trend File and Standard Eurobarometer
6. Standard Eurobarometer and CCEB
0. Direct presidential
1. Strong president elected by assembly
0. Proportional
0. No PR used
1. PR used
0. No plurality used
1. Plurality used
0. D'Hondt not used
1. D'Hondt used
0. Lists not closed
1. Closed lists
0. No autonomous regions
1. Autonomous regions
1. Module 1
2. Module 2
1. Yes, with strictly enforced sanctions
2. Yes, with weakly enforced sanctions
3. Yes, with limited enforcement
4. Yes, without sanction for violation
5. No compulsory voting
0. Severely restricted
1. Somewhat restricted
2. Fully protected
0. Practiced freequently
1. Practiced occasionally
2. Have not occured
0. Complete
1. Some
2. None
0. Yes
1. No
0. Yes and many
1. Yes, but few
0. Very limited
1. Moderately free and open
2. Very free and open
0. Restricted
1. Generally unrestricted
0. Practiced frequently
0. Have occured frequently
1. Have occured occasionally
0. Severely restricted or denied completely to all citizens
1. Limited for all citizens or severly restricted or denied for selected groups
2. Virtually unrestricted and freely enjoyed by practically all citizens
1. Single party majority
2. Minimum winning coalition
3. Surplus coalition
4. Single party minority
5. Multi party minority
6. Caretaker
1. Right-wing hegemony
2. Right-wing and center dominance
3. Standoff betwen left and right
4. Social-democratic and other left dominance
5. Social-democratic and other left hegemony