Study title

This dataset comprises the data collected for the Sub-state Autonomy Scale (SAS). The SAS is an indicator measuring the autonomy demands and statutes of sub-state communities in kind (whether competences are administrative or legislative), in degree (how much each dimension is present) and by competences (as a function of the extent of comprised policy domains).

Definitions:
-By 'sub-state community', I refer to sub-state entities within countries for which autonomous institutions have been demanded by a significant regionalist or traditional (centrist, liberal or socialist main-stream) political party (>5%) or to which autonomous institutions have been conferred.
-By 'autonomy statutes', I refer to the legal autonomy prerogatives obtained by sub-state communities.
-For 'autonomy demands', I distinguish between the legal autonomy prerogatives demanded by the regionalist party with the highest vote share and those demanded by the traditional party with the largest autonomy demand.

Detailed conceptual presentation: see the Regional Studies article cited below (the open access author version can be found in the files section).

Specifications:
-Unit of analysis: sub-state communities by yearly intervals.
-Country coverage: Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom (31 sub-state communities).
-Time coverage: 1707-2020 (starting dates vary across sub-state communities).
*For the full list of sub-state communities and their respective time coverage, see the codebook.

Citation and acknowledgement: when using the data, please cite the Regional Studies article listed below.

Latest version: 1.0 [01.02.2022].