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The Dataset of Autocratic Election Schedules (DAES) describes events related to election schedules and occurrences in every post-World War II autocratic regime for each month from 1946 to 2010. The complete list of autocratic regimes is from Geddes, Wright and Frantz (2014, 2018).
DAES covers 1,524 elections that have occurred or failed to occur in 280 autocratic regimes in 120 countries and areas. Among these elections, 531 (34.8%) underwent at least one schedule interruption (delayed, brought forward, canceled, or election held ad-hoc), and 144 scheduled elections (9.4%) were never held. DAES includes two datasheets. First, the monthly data has 55,324 regime-month observations; each row records whether the given month saw the occurrence of many kinds of election schedule events in this country. Second, DAES also offers an event dataset of 1,993 observations, each as an election event in a particular country. Each row describes what kind of event the observation is in a variety of nominal variables. |
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