What is TERRGO?

• a new dataset on territorial self-governance in democracies, semi-democracies, and autocracies
• including more than 2,200 second-level regions in 96 countries
• containing over 39,000 region-year assessments
• enhancing our grasp on the empirical complexity of state structures

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TERRGO...

…takes a fresh look at territorial self-governance in more than 2,900 second-level regions in 96 Western and non-Western democracies, semi-democracies and autocracies

• ...provides information on each generic category of self-governance units (TERRGO_C)
• ...makes available data for each individual unit (TERRGO_U)

…builds on a parsimonious conceptualization of territorial self-governance

• ...reduces the terminological confusion in the field
• ...is easily applicable and falsifiable
• ...carves out ‚differences in kind‘

…allows to untangle country-specific profiles

While some countries represent a TERRGO type in its pure form..

…others show more complex configurations or have changed their face over time