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Political Institutions, State Capabilities, and Public Policy: An International Dataset (2014 Update)

By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)

The Database of Political Institutions presents institutional and electoral results data such as measures of checks and balances, tenure and stability of the government, identification of party affiliation and ideology, and fragmentation of opposition and government parties in the legislature, among others. The current version of the database, which is now hosted at the IDB, expands its coverage to about 180 countries for 40 years, 1975-2015. Researchers at the World Bank Development Research Group first compiled the database in 2000 (see citation information below). It has become one of the most cited databases in comparative political economy and comparative political institutions. Almost 3000 studies have used this database so far as a source of institutional and political data in their empirical analysis.

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Identifier https://doi.org/10.60966/hpduslhw
License Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs 3.0 IGO
Citation

Scartascini, Carlos, et al. (2015). Political Institutions, State Capabilities, and Public Policy: An International Dataset (2014 Update). IDB Open Data. https://doi.org/10.60966/hpduslhw
Published date 2015-03-04
Modified date 2026-06-15
Tags/Keywords Database · Democracy · Elections · Government · Legislatures · Political Institutions · Political Parties
Language
  1. English
In Series Database of Political Institutions
Temporal coverage 1975-2014
Country
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago
Uruguay
Venezuela
Region Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher
Inter-American Development Bank
Author
Scartascini, Carlos
Franco, Maria
Data collection type Administrative Data
Statistical type Panel Data
Data structure Structured Data

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