Replication Data for: Democratic Trajectories in the Third Wave - Aligning Theory and Methods

The dataset covers all countries that experienced a transition to democracy from 1974 until 2012. It includes democracies, observed on a yearly basis until the regime becomes authoritarian or until 2017 otherwise. Regimes enter our dataset in the first full year of democracy, and they exit after a breakdown. Based on our coding rules, there were 103 transitions to democracy in 84 independent countries from 1974 to 2017. This yields a total of 1731 country-years in our dataset. We have complete covariate information for 98 democratic regimes and 1595 country-years. Our data on democracy is based on Version 8 of V-Dem.