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Replication data for: Index of Effective Competition, 1946-2007

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Title Replication data for: Index of Effective Competition, 1946-2007
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/I1DOJC
 
Creator Anibal Perez-Linan
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Effective party competition measured at the country-year level for 20 Latin American countries between 1946 and 2007. C_h is the value of the competitiveness index for the lower (or only) house of the national legislature, C_s is the value of the index for the upper house, and C is the average competition score for the two chambers. In this version, government parties other than the president's party were identified based on post-electoral coalitions (when information was available). The index was calculated for democratic regimes and for non-democratic regimes with a legislature (be aware that interpretation of this indicator in non-democratic contexts requires additional judgement). See the reference article for a definition of the index.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Political parties
 
Date 2010
 
Type CSTS, country-year