About this Dataset

Boix-Miller-Rosato (BMR) Dichotomous Coding Of Democracy (1800-2020)

This dataset covers all sovereign countries (including micro-states) from 1800 to 2020. Generally, we use United Nations membership to define when micro-states enter the data set. We thank Benjamin A.T. Graham and his students at USC (Valeria Flores-Cadena, Jiaming Shi, Affan Rahman, and Apurvi Bhartia) for providing their own democracy ratings and supporting information as part of a class project.

The authors argue that their measure’s distinguishing features—a concrete, dichotomous coding and a long time span—are of critical value to empirical work on democracy. Inspired by Robert Dahl, they define a country as democratic if it satisfies conditions for both contestation and participation. Specifically, democracies feature political leaders chosen through free and fair elections and satisfy a threshold value of suffrage.

Tables

Boix-Miller-Rosato (BMR) Dichotomous Coding Of Democracy (1800-2020)

@owid.bmr.owid_bmr

35.48 kB
22,185 rows
12 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_bmr (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "regime" INTEGER,
  "regime_womsuffr" INTEGER,
  "regime_imputed_country" VARCHAR,
  "regime_imputed" BOOLEAN,
  "num_years_in_democracy_consecutive" INTEGER,
  "num_years_in_democracy" INTEGER,
  "num_years_in_democracy_ws_consecutive" INTEGER,
  "num_years_in_democracy_ws" INTEGER,
  "num_years_in_democracy_consecutive_group" VARCHAR,
  "num_years_in_democracy_ws_consecutive_group" VARCHAR
);

Num Countries Regime

@owid.bmr.owid_num_countries_regime

12.06 kB
4,437 rows
5 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_num_countries_regime (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "category" INTEGER,
  "num_countries_regime" INTEGER,
  "num_countries_regime_ws" INTEGER
);

Num Countries Regime Years

@owid.bmr.owid_num_countries_regime_years

12.21 kB
7,395 rows
5 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_num_countries_regime_years (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "category" VARCHAR,
  "num_countries_years_in_democracy_consec" INTEGER,
  "num_countries_years_in_democracy_ws_consec" INTEGER
);

Population Regime

@owid.bmr.owid_population_regime

49.19 kB
4,641 rows
5 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_population_regime (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "category" INTEGER,
  "population_regime" UINTEGER,
  "population_regime_ws" UINTEGER
);

Population Regime Years

@owid.bmr.owid_population_regime_years

34.67 kB
7,735 rows
5 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_population_regime_years (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "category" VARCHAR,
  "population_years_in_democracy_consec" UINTEGER,
  "population_years_in_democracy_ws_consec" UINTEGER
);