Popular versus Elite Democracies and Human Rights Inclusion Data

184.9 MB of data supplements a 2019 research paper in International Studies Quarterly. The dataset supports a time-series cross-sectional analysis of forty-nine established democracies, comparing institutional inclusion to human rights practices. It was authored by Devin Kumar Joshi and published on figshare.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between institutional democracy and human rights based on the Institutional Democracy Index (IDI).
• Comparing human rights practices across different types of democracies as described in the research.
• Analyzing the impact of security threats from armed conflict on human rights in democratic contexts.
• Replicating or extending the time-series cross-sectional research design on forty-nine established democracies.

Strengths

• Dataset size is 184.9 MB, suggesting a medium-scale analysis.
• Explicitly linked to a peer-reviewed publication in International Studies Quarterly.
• Uses a specific measure of democracy (Institutional Democracy Index) as described in the paper.
• License is CC0-1.0, allowing for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, supplementing research by JOSHI, Devin K., MALOY, J. S., & PETERSON, Timothy M.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from existing indices and cross-national data for a time-series cross-sectional research design.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 10:52:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Covers forty-nine established democracies; specific countries are not listed.