New Tools in Comparative Political Economy : The Database of Political Institutions

Beck, Thorsten ; Clarke, George ; Groff, Alberto ; Keefer, Philip ; Walsh, Patrick

Washington, DC:World Bank

关键词: ALLEGIANCE;    BRANCHES;    CABINET;    CANDIDATES;    CONSTITUENCIES;   

RP-ID  :  77349

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This article introduces a large newcross-country database, the database of politicalinstitutions. It covers 177 countries over 21 years,1975-95. The article presents the intuition, construction,and definitions of the different variables. Among the novelvariables introduced are several measures of checks andbalances, tenure and stability, identification of partyaffiliation with government or opposition, and fragmentationof opposition and government parties in the legislature.