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Database Info: Political Database of the Americas

Description The PDBA offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the LAC region. The Political Database of the Americas (PDBA) is a non-governmental project of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University in collaboration with institutions like the Secretariat for Political Affairs of the Organization of American States and FLACSO-Chile, and also with the support of other organizations and entities in the region.

The PDBA offers a great quantity of information, classified according to the following themes:
  • Political Constitutions and Comparative Constitutional Studies
  • Executive Branch
  • Legislative Branch
  • Judicial Branch
  • Electoral Data and Systems
  • Political Parties
  • Decentralization and Local Governance
  • Democracy and Citizen Security
  • Indigenous Peoples, Democracy and Political Participation
  • Civil Society

The Political Database of the Americas offers information about the following countries:

Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bolivia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Grenada; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Dominican Republic; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; United States of America; and Venezuela.

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