The Legislative Power-Sharing in Non-Democracies Dataset
The Legislative Power-Sharing in Non-Democracies Dataset introduces a novel, time-varying measure of the extent to which legislatures exert real influence over policymaking and state resources in non-democratic regimes. Using cutting-edge quantitative methods—specifically, a dynamic Bayesian latent variable model—the dataset develops a unidimensional measure of legislative power-sharing. It includes 6,814 country-year observations spanning all non-democratic regimes—both hybrid and fully authoritarian—from 1946 to 2023. Each country-year features an estimate with quantified uncertainty, enabling researchers to incorporate uncertainty directly into their statistical analyses and draw more robust inferences. Click here for the dataset and here for the codebook.
Please Cite:
Hecht, Bryce. 2025. “Revisiting the Relationship Between Legislative Power-Sharing and Autocratic Survival.” Forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies.