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900226 Elected local governments (best estimate)     2024-04-23 09:13:04 2024-07-25 23:14:04     1789-2023 6481     
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 0     locelect_vdem__estimate_best grapher/democracy/2024-03-07/vdem/vdem_multi_without_regions#locelect_vdem__estimate_best 
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    "originalName": "Elected local governments (best estimate)",
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 2     Elected local governments (best estimate)     Best estimate of the extent to which elected local governments exist, and they operate without interference from local unelected bodies. Question: Are there elected local governments, and — if so — to what extent can they operate without interference from unelected bodies at the local level? Clarification: The lowest score would be reserved for a country that has no elected local governments. A medium score would be accorded a country that has elected local governments but where those governments are subordinate to unelected officials at the local level perhaps appointed by a higher-level body. A high score would be accorded to a country in which local governments are elected and able to operate without restrictions from unelected actors at the local level with the exception of judicial bodies. Naturally, local governments remain subordinate to the regional and national governments. Scale: Interval, from low to high (0-1). Indicator name: `v2xel_locelec` 
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 We expand the years covered by V-Dem further: To expand the time coverage of today's countries and include more of the period when they were still non-sovereign territories, we identified the historical entity they were a part of and used that regime's data whenever available For example, V-Dem only provides regime data since Bangladesh's independence in 1971. There is, however, regime data for Pakistan and the colony of India, both of which the current territory of Bangladesh was a part. We, therefore, use the regime data of Pakistan for Bangladesh from 1947 to 1970, and the regime data of India from 1789 to 1946. We did so for all countries with a past or current population of more than one million.       float 
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