Traditional Political Systems & Index of Democraticness

Traditional Political Systems Dataset including a new index for the measure of democraticness The dataset contains the data of extensive web-based expert survey that took place as part of the dissertation project of Daniela Kromrey at the University of Konstanz/ Department of Politics and Public Administration. About 300 academic experts from political science, anthropology, law, history and cultural studies participated in the web survey on “Traditional Political Systems in Africa” to gather information of prevailing traditional systems and their political attributes. 157 of 159 covered African ethnic groups in the dataset were identified using the data project of the ETH Zurich, the Ethnic Power Relation Dataset (version 2.0) for the year 2009, and can thus be linked to this data and other dataset using the EPR coding for ethnic groups. Data on two additional groups can be found in the data (see “sample” variable for details).