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Why do I want wikipedia to change the entry about MaxRange? As collaborator with Max Rånge, I think it is important that the entry is correct, updated and complete--but without redundant information. This is why I am proposing to delete the earlier references to conference papers and pre-prints, and instead include the important publication in Journal of Interdisciplinary History (MIT Press) which has been peer reviewed and is the major source of information about MaxRange. The CASE link is no longer valid. So please look at this publication first and delete the less important non-publication sources. Then I also think it is important to stress that the data are categorical, listing a large number of specific regime-types, regime-type classes such as qualified democracy, electoral democracy, false democracy, various types of authoritarianism, despotism and absolutism, not a numerial data set with degree codings in figures, such as Polity IV, Polyarchy, or V-dem. This makes MaxRange unique and verifiable in relation to historical research and therefore possible to correct if new research discovers new facts. I also would like to add some links to publications in scientific journals using MaxRange data. So below, please find what I suggest for an editor to publish. Best Mikael Sandberg (DrTrueteller)

MaxRange is a data set ranking the level of democracy, institutional structure and (regime-type) for all countries of the world on a graded categorical scale. It was developed by Max Rånge, and is maintained by Rånge and Mikael Sandberg, political scientists at Halmstad University, Sweden. Values are sorted based on level and type of democracy, political accountability structure and other aspects of all political regime-types that occurred in the world since 1600. MaxRange defines the value corresponding to all states every month from 1789 to the present and every year from 1600 to the present. It is the first data set on all political systems from the 17th century to the present day.

MaxRange data are not possible to download in full. However, there are some research articles that rely on country case MaxRange data.