State capacity dataset

Cross-national panel data on democracy and state capacity.

Format

dataframe

References

The democracy measure (demo) comes from Boix, Miller, and Rosato (2013). The state capacity measure (Capacity) comes from Hanson and Sigman (2013.)

Reference: Erik H. Wang and Yiqing Xu (2018). "Awakening Leviathan: the Effect of Democracy on State Capacity, 1960-2009." Research and Politics, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, April-June 2018, pp. 1-7.