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elections: Election-year democracy indicators from V-Dem (1946–2024)

Description

A sample of election years from the V-Dem dataset covering 2,680 country-years between 1946 and 2024. Includes a range of democracy indices and related variables measured during years in which national elections were held.

Usage

elections

Arguments

Format

## ´elections´ A tibble with 2,680 rows and 21 variables:

country_name

Country name

year

Election year

v2x_polyarchy

Electoral democracy index

v2x_libdem

Liberal democracy index

v2x_partipdem

Participatory democracy index

v2x_delibdem

Deliberative democracy index

v2x_egaldem

Egalitarian democracy index

v2xel_frefair

Free and fair elections index

v2x_frassoc_thick

Freedom of association index

v2x_elecoff

Elected officials index

v2eltrnout

Voter turnout (V-Dem)

v2x_accountability

Accountability index

v2xps_party

Party system institutionalization

v2x_civlib

Civil liberties index

v2x_corr

Control of corruption index

v2x_rule

Rule of law index

v2x_neopat

Neo-patrimonial rule index

v2x_suffr

Suffrage index

turnout

Turnout percentage (external source)

hog_lost

Factor indicating if head of government lost election

hog_lost_num

Numeric version of hog_lost