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Replication Data for: The Level of Democracy during Interregnum Periods: Recoding the polity2 Score (with Thomas Plümper), Political Analysis, 18 (2), 2010, pp. 206-226

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Title Replication Data for: The Level of Democracy during Interregnum Periods: Recoding the polity2 Score (with Thomas Plümper), Political Analysis, 18 (2), 2010, pp. 206-226
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EEUNP1
 
Creator Neumayer, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The polity2 variable from the Polity IV project is the most popular measure of a country’s
political regime. This article contends that the coding rules employed to create a polity2
score during years of so-called interregnum and affected transitions produce a measure of
democracy that lacks face validity. Using both single and multiple imputation methods, we
construct and evaluate several variables that offer alternative measures to polity2 during
such periods. We recommend that scholars using polity2 test whether their results are
robust to using our alternatives and using multiple imputation techniques instead. Where
robustness cannot be established, scholars need to theoretically justify the choice of either
polity2 or one of the alternatives.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Neumayer, Eric