Update, A Global Measure of Judicial Independence, 1900-2015

Update of Latent Judicial Independence scores described in Linzer and Staton (2015). Newer versions of Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI), Polity IV’s executive constraints (XCONST), PRS Group, Feld-Voigt, and Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) are included. Two measures of de facto judicial independence were included from the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem), high court independence (v2juhcind) and high court compliance (v2juhccomp). Suggested citation. We suggest that you cite both the original paper describing the model as well as the dataset itself. See citation information.