0. Parliamentary Democracy
1. Mixed Democracy
2. Presidential Democracy
3. Civilian Dictatorship
4. Military Dictatorship
5. Monarchic Dictatorship
0. Democracy
1. Dictatorship
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
0. Have occured frequently
1. Have occured occasionally
2. Have not occured
0. Practiced frequently
1. Practiced occasionally
0. Restricted
1. Generally unrestricted
0. Very limited
1. Moderately free and open
2. Very free and open
0. Yes and many
1. Yes, but few
2. None
0. Yes
1. No
0. Complete
1. Some
0. Practiced freequently
0. Severely restricted
1. Somewhat restricted
2. Fully protected
0. No autonomous regions
1. Autonomous regions
0. Lists not closed
1. Closed lists
0. D'Hondt not used
1. D'Hondt used
1. Right
2. Left
3. Center
0. No finite term
1. Finite term
0. Proportional
1. Plurality
0. Not a military officer
1. Military officer
0. No plurality used
1. Plurality used
0. No PR used
1. PR used
0. Direct presidential
1. Strong president elected by assembly
2. Parliamentary
1. Free
2. Partly Free
3. Not Free
1. Majoritarian
2. Proportional
3. Multi-tier
4. Mixed
3. Mixed
0. Dictatorship
1. Parliamentary Democracy
2. Mixed Democracy
3. Presidential Democracy
2. Absolute majority
3. Qualified majority
4. Electoral college
5. Single transferable vote (STV)
0. No runoff
1. Runoff
0. Presidential
1. Semi-Presidential
0. Majoritarian or Preferential vote
1. Mixed-member majority or Bloque vote
2. Closed-list-PR
0. No independent sub-federal units
1. Independent sub-federal units
0. No independent judiciary
1. Independent judiciary
0. No legislative chamber
1. Legislative chamber
0. No 2nd legislative chamber
1. 2nd legislative chamber
0. Never colonized by a Western overseas colonial power
1. Dutch
2. Spanish
3. Italian
4. US
5. British
6. French
7. Portuguese
8. Belgian
9. British-French
10. Australian
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
1. Alternative Vote (AV)
2. Borda Count (BC)
3. Block Vote (BV)
4. First Past The Post (FPTP)
5. List Proportional Representation (List PR)
6. Mixed Member Proportional System (MMP)
7. No provisions for direct elections (N)
8. Party Block Vote (PBV)
9. Parallel Systems
10. Single Non-Transferable Vote (SNTV)
11. Single Transferable Vote (STV)
12. Two-Round System (TRS)
13. Limited Vote (LV)
0. Not a bicameral system
1. Bicameral system
0. Not an election year
1. Election year
0. No runoff elections
1. Runoff elections
0. No multi tier
1. Multi tier
0. Not a single-party system
1. Single-party system
0. Tiers not allocated in parallel
1. Tiers allocated in parallel
0. No separate vote for each tier
1. Separate vote for each tier
0. Judicial decisions not source of law
1. Judicial decisions source of law
0. No review
1. Limited review
2. Full review
0. Less than six years
1. More than six years but not lifelong
2. Lifelong
1. English Common Law
2. French Commercial Code
3. Socialist/Communist Laws
4. German Commercial Code
5. Scandinavian Commercial Code
0. Male leader
1. Female leader
2. Absolute maj
3. Qualified maj
4. Limited vote
5. Alternative vote
6. SNTV
7. Modified Borda
1. Coexistence, indep.
2. Superposition, indep.
3. Fusion, indep.
4. Correction, dep.
5. Conditional, dep.
1. Linked
2. Unlinked
0. No
1. Yes
-88. Transition periods
-77. Interregnum periods
-66. Interruption periods
0. Confident
1. Tentative
2. Tenuous
0. No overt fragmentation
1. Slight fragmentation
2. Moderate fragmentation
3. Serious fragmentation
0. Not Applicable
1. Repressed
2. Supressed
3. Factional
4. Transitional
5. Competitive
1. Unregulated
2. Multiple Identities
3. Sectarian
4. Restricted
5. Regulated
1. Selection
2. Dual/Transitional
3. Election
1. Closed
2. Dual Executive-Designation
3. Dual Executive-Election
4. Open
2. Designational/Transitional
3. Regulated
1. Hare
2. Droop
3. Imperiali
4. Reinforced Imperiali
5. Modified Hare
6. d'Hondt
7. Saint-Lague
8. Modified Saint-Lague
9. STV
0. No federal structure
1. Federal structure
0. Not a presidential regim
1. Presidential regime
1. limited multiparty
2. partyless
3. no-party
4. military trad
5. military no-party
6. military multiparty
7. military one-party
8. one-party
9. other
16. one-party monarchy
17. monarchy
18. rebel regime
19. civil war
20. occupation
21. theocracy
22. transitional
23. no-party monarchy
24. multiparty monarchy
25. multiparty-occupied
100. democracy
25. dominant multiparty
26. multiparty-occupied
1. Monarchy
2. Military
3. One-party
4. Multi-party
5. Multi-monarchy
6. Military-multi
7. Military-one
9. No-party
10. No-party mon
11. Military noparty
12. Rebel regime
99. Other
100. Democracy
0. Country is not listed as location of a conflict
1. Country is listed as location of a minor armed conflict
2. Country is listed as location of an intermediate armed conflict
3. Country is listed as location of a war
0. No extra-state conflict
1. Extra-state minor armed conflict
2. Extra-state intermediate armed conflict
3. Extra-state war
0. No interstate conflict
1. Interstate minor armed conflict
2. Interstate intermediate armed conflict
3. Interstate war
0. No internal conflict
1. Internal minor armed conflict
2. Internal intermediate armed conflict
3. Internal war
0. No Internationalized internal conflict
1. Internationalized internal minor armed conflict
2. Internationalized internal intermediate armed conflict
3. Internationalized internal war