Political Competition and Economic Globalization Panel Data, 130 Countries 1980–2015

A five-year panel dataset covering approximately 130 countries from 1980 to 2015, used to test the relationship between political competition and economic globalization. The data was created by Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti and P. Navarra for a study examining changes after the Cold War. It was last updated on June 4, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the U-shaped relationship between political competition and openness based on the Polity scale
• Comparing economic globalization trends before and after 1990 across regime types
• Testing dynamic fixed-effects specifications with panel data
• Conducting robustness checks with GMM estimators
• Performing falsification tests using future political competition data

Strengths

• Covers approximately 130 countries over a 35-year period (1980–2015)
• Includes data for both highly authoritarian and highly democratic regimes
• Supports dynamic fixed-effects specifications and GMM robustness checks

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The 191.2 KB file size suggests a limited scope or highly aggregated data

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely compiled from established political and economic indices (e.g., Polity).

Time Range

1980–2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 10:48:54

Geography

Approximately 130 countries worldwide.