Dataset But Jongkind Voermans - Direct Democracy in the Constitution Good or Bad for Democracy.xlsx

The dataset contains a collection of open-sourced data. It contains a global analysis of how constitutions containing provisions that allow for referendums and citizens' legislative initiatives can be related to the countries' democratic score as calculated by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Variables taken into account are the political system/regime (parliamentary/presidential), population count, and GDP. The dataset also features multiple regressions of all variables, with the democratic socre being the dependent variable. This global analysis has been repeated for EU countries and non-EU countries specifically.