The goal of the Dataset of Autocratic Election Schedules (DAES) is to describe events related to election schedules and occurrences in every post-World War II autocratic regime. The current DAES 0.3 version covers 340 autocratic regimes from 145 countries and areas between 1946 and 2023 and records 1,668 elections that occurred or failed to occur in this period. Among these elections, 268 (16%) underwent at least one schedule interruption (delayed, brought forward, canceled, or election held ad-hoc), and 64 scheduled elections (4%) were never held.
DAES includes two datasheets, one structured around events and the other around regime-month observations. First, the DAES 0.3 Event Dataset shows 2,686 observations, each as an election schedule event in the given country. Each row describes what kind of event the observation is in a variety of nominal variables. It also specifies the country and regime names; the year, month, and day when the event occurred; and whether the event forms an election sequence with preceding and/or subsequent events. Second, as the main data, the DAES 0.3 Monthly Dataset has 66,571 regime-month observations. Each row records whether the given month saw the occurrence of many kinds of election schedule events in this country, and it describes many election-related characteristics of the regime in the given month with a variety of binary, timer, and counter variables. |
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