Democracy Timeseries Data Release 3.0, January 2009

This dataset is in a country-year case format, suitable for time-series analysis. It contains data on the social, economic and political characteristics of 191 nations with over 600 variables from 1971 to 2007. It merges the indicators of democracy by Freedom House, Vanhanen, Polity IV, and Cheibub and Gandhi, plus selected institutional classifications and also socio-economic indicators from the World Bank. New variables including the KOF Globalization Index and the new Norris-Inglehart Cosmopolitan Index. Note that you should check the original codebooks for the meaning and definition of each of the variables. The period for each series also varies. Note that the Excel version is for Office 2007 only. This is the dataset used in the book, Driving Democracy.

January 2009

Stored in Stata, SPSS, Excel and CSV.

Nigeria is classified as a nation of hybrid democracy. As of 2022, Nigeria's democracy achieved 4.23 points. According to the source, the index is based on electoral process and pluralism, government functions, political participation, and culture as well as civil liberties. Electoral process and pluralism attained 5.17 points. However, Nigeria received very low scores in government functioning, political participation, civil liberties, and political culture, which were all below four points.

Update of Latent Judicial Independence scores described in Linzer and Staton (2015). Newer versions of Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI), Polity IV’s executive constraints (XCONST), PRS Group, Feld-Voigt, and Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) are included. Two measures of de facto judicial independence were included from the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem), high court independence (v2juhcind) and high court compliance (v2juhccomp). Suggested citation. We suggest that you cite both the original paper describing the model as well as the dataset itself. See citation information.