Competitiveness of Executive Recruitment. Polity IV.
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Multinomial |
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| Technical name | regime_polity_xrcomp |
| Category | Polity |
| Label | Competitiveness of Executive Recruitment |
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Competitiveness of Executive Recruitment: Competitiveness refers to the extent that prevailing modes of advancement give subordinates equal opportunities to become superordinates. For example, selection of chief executives through popular elections matching two or more viable parties or candidates is regarded as competitive.
Coding rules
If power transfers are coded Unregulated ("1") in the Regulation of Executive Recruitment (variable 3.1), or involve a transition to/from unregulated, Competitiveness is coded “0".
Three categories are used to measure this concept:
(1) Selection: Chief executives are determined by hereditary succession, designation, or by
a combination of both, as in monarchies whose chief minister is chosen by king or court.
Examples of pure designative selection are rigged, unopposed elections; repeated
replacement of presidents before their terms end; recurrent military selection of civilian
executives; selection within an institutionalized single party; recurrent incumbent selection
of successors; repeated election boycotts by the major opposition parties, etc.
(2) Dual/Transitional: Dual executives in which one is chosen by hereditary succession, the
other by competitive election. Also used for transitional arrangements between selection
(ascription and/or designation) and competitive election.
(3) Election: Chief executives are typically chosen in or through competitive elections
matching two or more major parties or candidates. (Elections may be popular or by an
elected assembly.)
Bibliographic info
Citation: Marshall, Monty G., Ted Robert Gurr, and Keith Jaggers. 2017. Dataset Users’ Manual. Polity IV Project. Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-2016. Center for Systemic Peace. [1].
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