Dataset
Constitutionalism and Democracy Dataset, Version 1.0
Digital Research Archive
Document Type
Data Set
Publication Date
5-26-2017
Pages
1-17
Publisher Name
American University
Disciplines
Abstract
The main objective of the CDD is to quantify the process of constitution-making since 1974. This is the first public release of any data on the process of constitution-making. This release includes data on 144 national constitutions promulgated in 119 countries from 1974 to 2014. The unit of analysis in the data is national constitutions. The data in this release includes only “new” constitutions and does not include suspended, re-installed, amended, or interim constitutions. In this release, only countries with a population larger than 500,000 are included. The authors intend to update the data by including all countries, expanding the time frame, and adding new variables which record the process of constitution-making.
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Copyright Statement
© The Authors 2017
Citation Information
Todd A. Eisenstadt, Carl LeVan and Tofigh Maboudi. "Constitutionalism and Democracy Dataset, Version 1.0" Digital Research Archive (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tofigh-maboudi/20/
Author Posting. © The Authors 2017. This data set is posted here by permission of American University for personal use, not for redistribution. The data set was posted to the American University Digital Research Archive, 2017, http://doi.org/10.17606/M63W25