Political Constraints V
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | polnat_polity_polconv_polcon |
| Category | Political factors |
| Label | Index of political constraints (POLCON V) |
| Related indicators | Political Constraints III |
Henisz' measures of political constraints (POLCON) capture the "feasibility of change", i.e. the "the extent to which a change in the preferences of any one actor may lead to a change in government policy" (Henisz 2002, 363). It ranges from 0 to 1 with higher values indicating more constraints. The POLCON V index takes five branches (executive, lower and upper legislative chambers, judiciary, and sub-federal entities) into account.
Coding rules
Henisz starts out from identifying the number of independent government branches, assuming policy preferences "independently and identically drawn from a uniform, unidimensional policy space" (Henisz 2002, 363) and taking the extent of partisan alignments across the branches into account. For a detailed description of the index construction see Henisz 2002, 380-389 (Appendix). In contrast to his POLCON III measure which only takes three government branches (executive, lower and upper legislative chambers) into account, POLCON V also considers the judiciary and sub-federal entities as additional veto branches.
Bibliographic info
Citation: Henisz, Witold J. 2000. "The Institutional Environment for Economic Growth." Economics and Politics 12 (1): 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0343.00066
Related publications:- Henisz, Witold J. 2002. "The Institutional Environment for Infrastructure Investment." Industrial and Corporate Change 11 (2): 355-389. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/11.2.355
- Henisz, Witold J. 2005. "POLCON_2005 Codebook". https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CODEBOOK_2005.pdf
Misc
Project manager(s): Nils Düpont (A01), Paul Bederke
Data release:- Version 0.001: Initial release
Revisions: No revisions yet
Sources
- Henisz, Witold J. 2017. "The Political Constraint Index (POLCON) Dataset. 2017 Data Release." https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/heniszpolcon/polcondataset/
