Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020

Nils Christian Bormann; Matt Golder

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102487

Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020

Nils Christian Bormann, Matt Golder

Political Science

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This research note describes an update to Bormann and Golder's 2013 Democratic Electoral Systems (DES) dataset. We extend the temporal scope of the previous dataset by adding information for all legislative and presidential elections that took place in democratic states from 2011 through 2020. More significantly, the DES dataset now includes information on all elections that are considered democratic by at least one of five different measures of regime type: Democracy and Dictatorship (DD), Freedom House (FH), Polity₅, Boix-Miller-Rosato (BMR), and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem). The result is that the new DES dataset has greater utility and is over 30% larger than the previous one. A brief overview of the data is presented.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	102487
Journal	Electoral Studies
Volume	78
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102487
State	Published - Aug 2022

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