TY - JOUR
T1 - Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset
T2 - Political institutions in the long 19th century
AU - Knutsen, Carl Henrik
AU - Teorell, Jan
AU - Wig, Tore
AU - Cornell, Agnes
AU - Gerring, John
AU - Gjerløw, Haakon
AU - Skaaning, Svend Erik
AU - Ziblatt, Daniel
AU - Marquardt, Kyle L.
AU - Pemstein, Daniel
AU - Seim, Brigitte
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - The Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset (Historical V-Dem) contains about 260 indicators, both factual and evaluative, describing various aspects of political regimes and state institutions. The dataset covers 91 polities globally – including most large, sovereign states, as well as some semi-sovereign entities and large colonies – from 1789 to 1920 for many cases. The majority of the indicators come from the Varieties of Democracy dataset, which covers 1900 to the present – together these two datasets cover the bulk of ‘modern history’. Historical V-Dem also includes several new indicators, covering features that are pertinent for 19th-century polities. We describe the data, coding process, and different strategies employed in Historical V-Dem to cope with issues of reliability and validity and ensure intertemporal and cross-country comparability. To illustrate the potential uses of the dataset we describe patterns of democratization in the ‘long 19th century’. Finally, we investigate how interstate war relates to subsequent democratization.
AB - The Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset (Historical V-Dem) contains about 260 indicators, both factual and evaluative, describing various aspects of political regimes and state institutions. The dataset covers 91 polities globally – including most large, sovereign states, as well as some semi-sovereign entities and large colonies – from 1789 to 1920 for many cases. The majority of the indicators come from the Varieties of Democracy dataset, which covers 1900 to the present – together these two datasets cover the bulk of ‘modern history’. Historical V-Dem also includes several new indicators, covering features that are pertinent for 19th-century polities. We describe the data, coding process, and different strategies employed in Historical V-Dem to cope with issues of reliability and validity and ensure intertemporal and cross-country comparability. To illustrate the potential uses of the dataset we describe patterns of democratization in the ‘long 19th century’. Finally, we investigate how interstate war relates to subsequent democratization.
KW - democracy
KW - democratization
KW - political institutions
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U2 - 10.1177/0022343318823866
DO - 10.1177/0022343318823866
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066477680
SN - 0022-3433
VL - 56
SP - 440
EP - 451
JO - Journal of Peace Research
JF - Journal of Peace Research
IS - 3
ER -