Replication data for: Riding the Wave: world trade and factor-based models of democratization

Replacing the “third wave” arguments are several competing models relating domestic social structure—specifically the distribution of income and factor ownership—to regime type. If any of these distributive models of regime type is correct then global trade has an important explanatory role to play.

Under factor-based models, changes in the world trading system will have systematic effects on regime dynamics. Trade openness determines labor’s factor income and ultimately its political power. As world trade expands and contracts, countries with similar labor endowments should experience similar regime pressures at the same time.