Vanhanen Index
of 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 Participat
ion
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
Thank you for attention.