page_title: Democracy-Dictatorship Index
hierarchical_section_title: Democracy-Dictatorship Index
caption_attribution_description: English: Democracies and dicatatoships in 2008, based on en:DD index.
context_page_description: Democracy-Dictatorship, index of democracy and dictatorship or simply the DD index or the DD datasets refers to the binary measure of democracy and dictatorship first proposed by Adam Przeworski et al., and further developed and maintained by Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland. Though the most recent data set is only updated for 2008, there is planning by Cheibub to update it to the present year.
  Based on the regime binary classification idea proposed by Alvarez in 1996, and the Democracy and Development proposed by Przeworski et al., Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland developed a six-fold regime classification scheme, resulting what the authors called as the DD datasets.
  The DD dataset covers the annual data points of 199 countries from 1946 to 2008. The figures at the left show the results in 1998 and 2008.
context_section_description: Democracy-Dictatorship (DD), index of democracy and dictatorship or simply the DD index or the DD datasets refers to the binary measure of democracy and dictatorship first proposed by Adam Przeworski et al. (2010), and further developed and maintained by Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland (2009). Though the most recent data set is only updated for 2008, there is planning by Cheibub to update it to the present year.
  Based on the regime binary classification idea proposed by Alvarez in 1996, and the Democracy and Development (or DD measure, ACLP dataset) proposed by Przeworski et al. (2010), Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland developed a six-fold regime classification scheme, resulting what the authors called as  the DD datasets.
  The DD dataset covers the annual data points of 199 countries from 1946 (or date of independence) to 2008. The figures at the left show the results in 1998 and 2008.
caption: Democracies and dictatorships in 2008.[1]
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