New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions |
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| Authors: | Beck, Thorsten Clarke, George Groff, Alberto Keefer, Philip Walsh, Patrick |
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| Affiliation: | the Development Research Group at the World Bank. pkeefer{at}worldbank.org
the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | This article introduces a large new cross-country database,the Database of Political Institutions. It covers 177 countriesover 21 years, 197595. The article presents the intuition,construction, and definitions of the different variables. Amongthe novel variables introduced are several measures of checksand balances, tenure and stability, identification of partyaffiliation with government or opposition, and fragmentationof opposition and government parties in the legislature. |
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