Country Information Topic Guide: Governmental Profiles

Reports from the independent Human Rights Watch organization.

Human rights reports from the Organization of American States.

Provides country profiles, electoral system design, political finance database, quotas for women and voter turnout.

Provides general information on each of 265 parliament's chambers in all of the 189 countries with a national legislature. The database also includes a description of the electoral system in each country and results of elections.

Each country's narrative account provides a chronological explanation of the systemic process of changing political authority as captured in that country's Polity scores from 1946, or its date of independence, through 2018.

The Polity IV Country Report series provides key regime data, regime trend graph, and a brief narrative description of executive recruitment, executive constraints, and political competition for each country covered by the Polity data series. The Polity IV Country Report format is no longer supported by the Polity Project and is no longer being updated.