Comparative Constitution Project Data

Creators:
Comparative Constitutional Project
Publication Date:
2022
Dataset Description:

The primary objective of the CCP is to record the characteristics of national constitutions written since 1789. The CCP aims to fill this informational gap by providing systematic data to comparative legal scholars for analysis long before they provide advice to constitution drafters. It is our hope that the analysis of, and insights from, these data will promote peace, justice, and human development through the constitution making process

Variables:
Name Description
COWCODE Correlates of War country code (correlatesofwar.org).
COUNTRY Country name
YEAR Year
SYST Identifies new constitutional systems. 0. No new constitutional system 1. New constitutional system
SYSTID Unique identification number for the constitutional system
SYSTYEAR Year in which the constitutional system was promulgated
EVNT Identifies constitutional events. 0. No constitutional event 1. Constitutional event
EVNTID Unique identification number for the constitutional event
EVNTYEAR Year of promulgation of the most recent constitutional event
EVNTTYPE Type of constitutional event (if any) (1-7, see codebook)
WG Indicates whether the observation is part of the Ward and Gleditsch sample
-Coding and Sampling Variables- For a list of all Coding and Sampling Variables see codebook
Publisher:
Comparative Constitutions Project
Size:
435.1 kB
Formats:
CSV; Stata 16 data files
Custom License:
Suggested Citation: Elkins, Zachary and Tom Ginsburg. 2022 “Characteristics of National Constitutions, Version 4.0.” Comparative Constitutions Project. Last modified: October 24, 2022. Available at comparativeconstitutionsproject.org.

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