is your unique and comprehensive resource for understanding the diverse landscape of global political regimes.
Our
dataset offers unparalleled features:
Historical and Current: Spanning 1900 to the present, with annual July updates, Va-PoReg
covers
the entire world, including microstates and semi-sovereign countries.
Beyond Democracies: Va-PoReg meticulously classifies political regimes into various types,
including military, personalist, and one-party autocracies; communist and Islamist ideocracies as well as
right-wing autocracies; autocratic and constitutional monarchies; non-electoral transitional regimes;
electoral
oligarchies; democratizing regimes, electoral hybrid regimes,electoral autocracies; electoral oligarchical autocracies, defective and liberal democracies.
First-of-its-Kind Colonial Focus: Va-PoReg systematically includes colonial and occupation
regimes, a unique aspect among political regime datasets.
