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|**Autocracy**<br>**(Polity IV)**|Integrated Network<br>for Societal Conflict<br>Research (INSCR) -<br>Center for Systemic<br>Peace|164<br>countries|The Autocracy indicator is an additive eleven-point scale (0-10),<br>with the higher score implying a more autocratic regime. The<br>operational indicator of autocracy is derived from coding of the<br>competitiveness of political participation variables, the regulation<br>of participation variables, the openness and competitiveness of<br>executive recruitment variables, and constraints on the chief<br>executive variables using specific weights.|
|**Polity (Polity IV)**|Integrated Network<br>for Societal Conflict<br>Research (INSCR) -<br>Center for Systemic<br>Peace|164<br>countries|The POLITY variable provides a convenient avenue for examining<br>general regime effects in analyses. The POLITY score is computed<br>by subtracting the Autocracy score from the Democracy score; the<br>resulting unified polity scale ranges from +10 (strongly democratic)<br>to 10 (strongly autocratic).|
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|**Freedom house**<br>**political rights**<br>**index**|Freedom House -<br>Freedom in the<br>World 2012|countries<br>and 14<br>related and<br>disputed<br>territories|Political rights ratings are based on an evaluation of three<br>subcategories: electoral process, political pluralism and<br>participation, and functioning of government.|
|**Freedom house**<br>**civil rights index**|Freedom House -<br>Freedom in the<br>World 2012|195<br>countries<br>and 14<br>related and<br>disputed<br>territories|Civil liberties ratings are based on an evaluation of four<br>subcategories: freedom of expression and belief, associational and<br>organizational rights, rule of law, and personal autonomy and<br>individual rights. Each country is assigned a numerical rating from<br>1 to 7 for both political rights and civil liberties, with 1 representing<br>the most free and 7 the least free. The average of the political rights<br>and civil liberties ratings, known as the freedom rating, determines<br>the overall status. House also assigns upward or downward trend<br>arrows to countries which saw general positive or negative trends<br>during the year that were not significant enough to result in a<br>ratings change.|
|**Control of**<br>**corruption**|Worldwide<br>Governance<br>Indicators- Control of<br>Corruption (CC)|213<br>countries|The CC indicator captures perceptions of the extent to which public<br>power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand<br>forms of corruption, as well as "capture" of the state by elites and<br>private interests. The CC indicator is forms part of the Worldwide<br>Governance Indicators, which draw on data from 31 different<br>sources that provide information on various aspects of governance.<br>The aggregate indicators combine the views of a large number of<br>enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and<br>developing countries. The individual data sources underlying the<br>aggregate indicators are drawn from a diverse variety of survey<br>institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and<br>international organizations.<br>The aggregate indicators are reported in two ways: (1) in their<br>standard normal units, ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5, and<br>(2) in percentile rank terms from 0 to 100, with higher values<br>correspondingto better outcomes.|
|**Internet Usage**|World Development<br>Indicators|142<br>countries|Internet users per 100 people|

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