Varieties of Political Regimes

Varieties of Political Regimes (Va-PoReg) offers a comprehensive and detailed resource for analyzing the global landscape of political regimes. The dataset provides: Coverage from 1900 to the present, with annual updates every July, encompassing all countries, including microstates and semi-sovereign nations. Detailed classification of political regimes beyond democracies, including military, personalist, and one-party autocracies; communist and Islamist ideocracies; right-wing autocracies; absolute and constitutional monarchies; non-electoral transitional regimes; electoral oligarchies; electoral autocracies; semidemocracies and democracies. Inclusion of colonial and occupation regimes, a unique feature among political regime datasets. We highly recommend for all interested in the dataset to visit the Varieties of Political Regimes website, managed by Nicole Husemann in collaboration with Steffen Kailitz. On this website, visitors can find interactive visualizations of the data, as well as a comprehensive analysis of the distribution and evolution of political regime types from 1900 to 2024. The website offers an engaging platform for exploring the dataset, featuring interactive charts, maps, and graphs that provide deep insights into the historical and contemporary dynamics of political regimes worldwide. Please visit https://www.va-poreg.de/