Liberal Democracy Replication Data for European Public Policy Research

Replication materials support a forthcoming article in the Journal of European Public Policy. The dataset and STATA do file were authored by researcher Carl Henrik Knutsen. The data was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between democracy indicators and other country-level variables using the provided .dta file.
• Replicating statistical models from the journal article using the included STATA do file.
• Testing the robustness of the 'self-reinforcing democracy' hypothesis with the replication dataset.

Strengths

• Data is peer-reviewed for a forthcoming article in a major journal.
• Includes both dataset and exact replication code (STATA do file).

Limitations

• Unknown row count and variable count limit assessment of statistical power.
• Specific temporal and geographic coverage of the data is not detailed.

Provenance

Source

Carl Henrik Knutsen Dataverse.

Collection Method

Created for academic research and replication.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.