The Democratic Innovations and Scale Database doi:10.34934/DVN/W3SBXW Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA 2024-11-26 1 Niessen, Christoph, 2024, "The Democratic Innovations and Scale Database", https://doi.org/10.34934/DVN/W3SBXW, Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA, V1, UNF:6:8LSOKMnZ9X2atF7M9ilzgw== [fileUNF] The Democratic Innovations and Scale Database doi:10.34934/DVN/W3SBXW Niessen, Christoph Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA Niessen, Christoph Niessen, Christoph 2024-11-06 2024-11-26 Social Sciences democratic innovation direct democracy deliberative democracy scale population size Politics.GovernmentPoliticalSystemsAndOrganisations The objective of the present database is to provide an exhaustive as possible list of direct and deliberative democratic innovations worldwide, of their core contextual and institutional features and, most importantly, of the population size of the political entity in which they have been implemented. Studying the impact of political entities’ population size on the functioning of democratic innovations is the main interest of the ‘Democratic Innovations and Scale’ research project that this database is part of. To establish the database, I drew on the most exhaustive existing databases on direct as well as on deliberative democratic innovations to date (as cited in the method, acknowledgements and citation section of the sheet). After merging databases and eliminating duplicates, I filtered the cases that were in line with the selection criteria of my own research (see criteria specified in the method, acknowledgements and citation section of the sheet). Excluded cases are documented in a separate sheet. For the final list of retained cases, the population size of the political entity in which they were conducted was collected based on World Bank, Database Earth or national census data.<br> <br> Latest version: 1.0 [06.11.2024]. <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a> (CC-BY). DIS_Database_V1-2024.11.06.tab 11 1 text/tab-separated-values UNF:6:8LSOKMnZ9X2atF7M9ilzgw== TheDemocraticInnovationsandScaleDatabase UNF:6:8LSOKMnZ9X2atF7M9ilzgw==