Cabinet Retention Rate by Country and Government System
This visualization uses a bar chart to show the average 11-year cabinet retention rate (2006-2016) for countries grouped by government type, revealing that civilian and royal dictatorships retain cabinets longer than democratic systems. The chart is built with Vega-Lite API, applying a bar mark with country on the x-axis, retention rate on the y-axis, and government type as color. Data is loaded from a CSV file containing a subset of the WhoGov International Cabinets dataset, with visualization parameters and styling configured through the Vega-Lite API’s encoding and config objects.
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The chart plots the retention rate of governmental cabinets of countries based on government type. The retention rate is taken as the 11-year average for each country for the years 2006-2016. Countries that experienced regime/system change during the 11-year window are excluded from the dataset.
The chart was designed to investigate the question "How does retention rate vary across different governmental systems?" Based on the chart, it appears as though Civilian Dictatorships and Royal Dictatorships have the highest average retention rates while Mixed Democratic, Parliamentary Democracy and Presidential Democracy have lower average retention rates.
The data is a subset WhoGov's International Cabinets dataset. The dataset contains information about more than 50,000 cabinet members from 177 countries, spanning July 1966 - July 2016. There is a separate entry for each cabinet member, from each country, for each year. Each entry contains information such as party affiliation, gender, age and military affiliation. Data is ported from the International Cabinets dataset - reduced to only include country, retention and government.