1. Vanhanen Index of Democracy Iga Czerniecka 29.04.2013

2. 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.

3. Variables: - Vanhanen’s country number - Year - Competition - Participation - Index of Democracy - State name abbreviation from the Correlates of War project (COW) - COW country number.

4. 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

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

6. CountryYearCompetitionParticipat ion Index of Democracy Azerbaijan200229,739,511,7 Venezuela200243,127,411,8 Bulgaria200250,055,227,6 Hungary200253,656,730,4 Germany200261,558,135,7 Greece200256,264,236,1 Italy200257,564,036,8

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