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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To collect data covering the major political and socio-economic variables of 138 countries as at 1st January 1969.Main Topics:Variables 1. Countries Country, geographical area, countries as a proportion of world population, date of independence, present norms of the regime, present techniques whereby regime maintains itself, stability of regime and regime changes, present regime compared with original (original norms and original techniques), voting age, suffrage restrictions, electoral system, party system, monarchical or republican form of government, structure of state, method of selection of head of state, head of government, maximum length of head of government, authority to whom government is responsible, ministers in legislature, right of dissolution of chamber by executive, number of chambers of legislature. Selection, size and duration of upper and lower houses. Size of military, whether under military rule, duration of military rule. Judicial review of legislation, appointment of judges by judicial review body, administrative justice, direct democracy at national level, personalisation of power, religion, number of regional units, population per regional unit, number of physicians per tens of thousand inhabitants, urbanisation (% of population in cities of 100,000 and more), primary and secondary education, government expenditure as % of GNP, population change, % of population below 30, GNP per capita, newspapers per 100 population. 2. Heads of Government Age, sex, regional affiliation, education, family involvement in politics, religious affiliation, father's occupation. Occupational history (political and non-political), party, means of accession, number of times re-elected, age at becoming leader, length of rule, leader's reputation, title of executive, bodies which appear to be in position to supervise executive, structure of executive, number of members, power hierarchy, length...