variables: 901272

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901272 Democracy     2024-05-16 10:18:00 2024-07-25 23:13:19     1776-2020 6516     
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 0     democracy_polity grapher/democracy/2024-05-13/polity/polity#democracy_polity   2             It combines information on the extent to which open, multi-party, and competitive elections choose a chief executive who faces comprehensive institutional constraints, and political participation is competitive. It ranges from -10 to 10 (fully democratic). Indicator name: `polity2` Revised Combined Polity Score: This variable is a modified version of the POLITY variable added in order to facilitate the use of the POLITY regime measure in time-series analyses. It modifies the combined annual POLITY score by applying a simple treatment, or ““fix,” to convert instances of “standardized authority scores” (i.e., -66, -77, and -88) to conventional polity scores (i.e., within the range, -10 to +10). The values have been converted according to the following rule set: -66: Cases of foreign “interruption” are treated as “system missing.” -77 Cases of “interregnum,” or anarchy, are converted to a “neutral” Polity score of “0.” -88 Cases of “transition” are prorated across the span of the transition. For example, country X has a POLITY score of -7 in 1957, followed by three years of -88 and, finally, a score of +5 in 1961. The change (+12) would be prorated over the intervening three years at a rate of per year, so that the converted scores would be as follows: 1957 -7; 1958 -4; 1959 -1; 1960 +2; and 1961 +5. Note: Ongoing (-88) transitions in the most recent year (2018) are converted to “system missing” values. Transitions (-88) following a year of independence, interruption (-66), or interregnum (-77) are prorated from the value “0.” 
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 Values for continents have been obtained by averaging the values of the countries in the continent.       float 
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