Vanhanen Index Vanhanen Index of Democracyof Democracy

Iga Czerniecka 29.04.2013

Author: Tatu Vanhanen, born in 1929 in Finland,  Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere

Time: early 1970s

The dataset is maintained by the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Oslo.

Variables:- Vanhanen’s country number- Year- Competition- Participation- Index of Democracy- State name abbreviation from the

Correlates of War project (COW)- COW country number.

Indicators: Competition and Participation. Both are calculated using election data, and the democracy index is estimated by combining

the two.

Competition: the percentage share of the smaller parties and independents of votes cast in partiamentary elections, or of the seats in parliament

Participation: the percentage of population that voted in elections

Index of Democratization is gained by multiplying Competition and Participation and dividing the outcome by 100.

Country Year Competition Participation

Index of Democracy

Azerbaijan 2002 29,7 39,5 11,7

Venezuela 2002 43,1 27,4 11,8

Bulgaria 2002 50,0 55,2 27,6

Hungary 2002 53,6 56,7 30,4

Germany 2002 61,5 58,1 35,7

Greece 2002 56,2 64,2 36,1

Italy 2002 57,5 64,0 36,8

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