1. unregulated
2. designational/transitional
3. regulated
0. unregulated
1. closed
2. dual executive-designation
3. dual executive-election
4. open
1. selection
2. dual/transitional
3. election
0. No Internationalized internal conflict
1. Internationalized internal minor armed conflict
2. Internationalized internal intermediate armed conflict
3. Internationalized internal war
0. No internal conflict
1. Internal minor armed conflict
2. Internal intermediate armed conflict
3. Internal war
0. No interstate conflict
1. Interstate minor armed conflict
2. Interstate intermediate armed conflict
3. Interstate war
0. No extra-state conflict
1. Extra-state minor armed conflict
2. Extra-state intermediate armed conflict
3. Extra-state war
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
1. collapse of central authority
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
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. dominant multiparty
26. multiparty-occupied
100. democracy
25. multiparty-occupied
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
2. multiple identity
3. sectarian
4. restricted
5. regulated
0. not applicable
1. repressed
2. suppressed
3. factional
4. transitional
5. competitive
0. No
1. Yes
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. English Common Law
2. French Commercial Code
3. Socialist/Communist Laws
4. German Commercial Code
5. Scandinavian Commercial Code
0. Less than six years
1. More than six years but not lifelong
2. Lifelong
0. No review
1. Limited review
2. Full review
0. Judicial decisions not source of law
1. Judicial decisions source of law
0. No separate vote for each tier
1. Separate vote for each tier
0. Tiers not allocated in parallel
1. Tiers allocated in parallel
0. Not a single-party system
1. Single-party system
0. No multi tier
1. Multi tier
0. No runoff elections
1. Runoff elections
0. Not an election year
1. Election year
0. Not a bicameral system
1. Bicameral system
888. Indirect
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)
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. 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
0. No 2nd legislative chamber
1. 2nd legislative chamber
0. No legislative chamber
1. Legislative chamber
0. No independent judiciary
1. Independent judiciary
0. No independent sub-federal units
1. Independent sub-federal units
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
0. no overt fragmentation
1. slight fragmentation <10%
2. moderate fragmentation 10-25%
3. serious fragmentation >25%
0. confident
1. tentative
2. tenuous
1. Free
2. Partly Free
3. Not Free
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
1. Right
2. Left
3. Center
0. Not a military officer
1. Military officer
0. No finite term
1. Finite term
0. D'Hondt not used
1. D'Hondt used
0. Lists not closed
1. Closed lists
0. No autonomous regions
1. Autonomous regions
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
0. Parliamentary Democracy
1. Mixed Democracy
2. Presidential Democracy
3. Civilian Dictatorship
4. Military Dictatorship
5. Monarchic Dictatorship
1. unlimited authority
2. intermediate category 1/3
3. slight to moderate limitations
4. intermediate category 3/5
5. substantial limitations
6. intermediate category 5/7
7. executive parity or subordination