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Regimes of the World (RoW): Opening New Avenues for the Comparative Study of Political Regimes

Anna Lührmann; Marcus Tannenberg; Staffan I. Lindberg · Politics and Governance 6(1), 60–77 · 2018

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Type: Article
Author: Anna Lührmann; Marcus Tannenberg; Staffan I. Lindberg
Identifier: DOI 10.17645/pag.v6i1.1214
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedThe Regimes of the World typology classifies countries into closed autocracies, electoral autocracies, electoral democracies and liberal democracies according to the de facto implementation of democratic institutions, using V-Dem data, and uses V-Dem's measurement uncertainty to flag cases that cannot be classified with confidence.EstablishedCompared with other regime datasets, the RoW classification disagrees in 7–12% of country-years and is more conservative, more often classifying regimes with electoral manipulation and infringements of political freedoms as electoral autocracies.