Polity5: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions

This dataset includes yearly information of the Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions published by Center for Systemic Peace (CSP), for multiple countries. These are annual, cross-national, time-series and polity-case formats coding democratic and autocratic "patterns of authority" and regime changes in all independent countries with total population greater than 500,000 in 2018 (167 countries in 2018). To access additional information and details regarding the variables and methodology, please refer to: https://www.systemicpeace.org/inscr/p5manualv2018.pdf

This dataset includes the equal information contained in dataset 39410 but the original variables where replaced with the description. To access additional information and details regarding the variables and methodology, please refer to: https://www.systemicpeace.org/inscr/p5manualv2018.pdf